| PACHYDERM | Insensitive person vacantly read my cheap novel (9) |
| POTBOILER | Work over, labourer pens book - a cheap novel (9) |
| SOFTCOVER | - would it be so like a cheap novel? |
| DAYDREAMS | Read my sad, unhappy fantasies (9) |
| WATCHWORD | "Read my lips" is the slogan (9) |
| LIGHTFOOT | Gordon, Canadian singer/songwriter who penned If You Could Read My Mind (9) |
| INACASTLE | "___ dark ..." (line from "If You Could Read My Mind") |
| SACRILEGE | Almost dismiss anger with graduate vacantly producing blasphemy (9) |
| MOONSCAPE | Gazes vacantly on promontory, one viewed by Neil and Buzz? (9) |
| YELLOWBACK | Advocate with chicken and cheap novel |
| PENNYDREADFUL | Cheap novel (5-8) |
| LOGGIA | Insensitive person, soldier at front of a covered arcade (6) |
| BOOR | Ill-mannered insensitive person (4) |
| ROBOT | Root out an insensitive person! (5) |
| NERD | Slang word for a clumsy or insensitive person (4) |
| LOG | Record the progress of an insensitive person (3) |
| CLOG | Choke conservative - insensitive person (4) |
| VLOG | Very insensitive person's ____: see dull detail |
| APOLOGETIC | Academy's imaginative accepting insensitive person's "sorry" |
| PENNY | A bit, coin, copper or piece whose name pairs with black, bun, dreadful, farthing, pig, royal or whistle to describe a stamp, cep, cheap novel, old ordinary bicycle, money box, mint-scented herb or fl |