| PERTINENCE | In pretence of it making state of being fitting (10) |
| PROFITABILITY | Fact of it making money for bail (pity it is wrong) (13) |
| CEILING | By the sound of it, making watertight interior roof (7) |
| UNSUITABILITY | Quality of not being fitting (13) |
| ACCEPTANCE | Favour mushroom in pretence with disfiguring acne (10). |
| MASQUERADE | Square made differently in pretence (10) |
| FALSESTART | Pretence of being surprised? (5,5) |
| PLAYACTING | Making a pretence of performing on piano outside church? |
| TAICHI | A slow system of exercises? Excellent champion in it making a comeback |
| MATHS | Teachers' leader in pretence to be up in subject |
| LIFELINE | Cat past fifty-one - is it making use of its ninth? |
| ACTS | Word, from "things done", for deeds, doings, feats, goings-on or performances, whether on the stage, in parliament, in pretence or when generally having fun (4) |
| BLUFF | Weep endlessly and very loudly in pretence (5) |
| PLAYACT | Bond frames plan to engage in pretence (4-3) |
| SWASTIKAS | Inside, asks foolishly "Was it making signs?" (9) |
| IGNITE | Point to gin and It making you get lit up (6) |
| DIME | Do it, making easy openers - nine more needed for buck (4) |
| CHAPATTI | Get the fellow at it making bread (8) |
| NAY | Vote against it making the sound a horse makes (3) |
| ISNT | Poles enter it making a denial (4) |
