| HUMANISTIC | Inasmuch as it could be to have faith in mankind (10) |
| ORIGINALSIN | In Christian theology, the tendency to evil held to be innate in mankind as the descendants of Adam (8,3) |
| ENVISAGE | Picture how it would be to have given sea a miss (8) |
| EXISTENCE | You must be, to have it (9) |
| ASSISTED | What an idiot Edward must be to have helped! (8) |
| BLUEMURDER | Awful outcry sounds like it could be to do with regicide, in a bloody colourful way? (4,6) |
| ADAMANDEVE | First people to have faith in cockney |
| CROSSEDOUT | Being cancelled could be to do with curses (7,3) |
| GOFROMHOME | Memo for hog: could be to leave base (2,4,4) |
| SWEAR | It's by to have faith in and it's off to promise to give up (5) |
| RELYON | It's about city in France to have faith in (4,2) |
| IRONY | In theory, it could be to avoid the sarcasm (5) |
| TOWN | Tone down edges, as it could be the next big thing to Hamlet (4) |
| AUSTRALASIAN | From other side of the world, area is as natural as it could be (12) |
| LANCASTER | English city's as central as it could be |
| SENSATIONALIST | As insolent as it could be eye-catching |
| DYSTOPIA | An imaginary place where all is as bad as it could be |
| IDEAL | Trade with India as good as it could be? |
| HORMONE | Heard tart complain - it could be to do with sex (7) |
| SHADOW | How sad it could be to follow secretly (6) |
