| FETISHIST | Is this possibly pursuing feet half-heartedly? One may think so |
| LAUGHSOFF | Rejects what one may think of bad jokes perhaps (6,3) |
| EXECRABLE | Senior manager leads the common people half-heartedly? That's terrible |
| KITTENISH | Elderly friends accepting sport half-heartedly ? inclined to play? |
| CATECHISM | Religious instruction? First of clerics came with this possibly (9) |
| BONAPARTE | One tap bar drunk may think himself Napoleon (9) |
| AMERICANA | Cinerama flicks advanced this possibly (9) |
| DUSTBUNNY | What a parent may think is under the [puzzle's central image] |
| SOAPOPERA | Convoluted love repeatedly appears in this, possibly |
| SHIFTWORK | Fine pair involved in skive, doing this, possibly |
| STINKBOMB | You may think something's gone off when it's gone off (5,4) |
| GLOSSITIS | Lingual problem - a tendency to comment comically, we may think |
| SUSPECT | He is, one may think, the perpetrator (7) |
| IDEAS | One may think of them as making an aside (5) |
| GEM | Stone one may think of in connection with strata |
| ALRIGHT | One may think there are pounds missing, but it's OK (7) |
| BREAKTHEBANK | It will cost more than one may think to do what some boom-time bankers did best (5,3,4) |
| SOBER | Dry tears shed by one, half-heartedly? (5) |
| DINER | One who eats his meal half-heartedly? (5) |
| GILTS | Securities one may think edgily about? |