| STATIONS | It's not as if they could be stopping-places (8) |
| ICARE | "It's not as if ___": "So what" |
| SAMBA | Cooked basmati? It's not as if it's a Brazilian dance! (5) |
| BURGESS | Wants to be stopping nonsense writer |
| OCTOBER | Be stopping spin expert, heading off for Number Ten in a year |
| FOREPAWS | Cats have two though sounding as if they have more |
| EYESLEFT | Sounded as if they are in agreement and went in order to look (4,4) |
| LITERARY | "Terms like grace, new birth, justification [...] which with St Paul are ____ terms, theologians have employed as if they were scientific terms" (Matthew Arnold) |
| DYINGOFF | Sounds like meeting with maker cancelled as it's not as popular as it once was (5,3) |
| COATTAIL | Company (American) to be sick about empty transport: it's not as long as a train (4-4) |
| DRAFTSMAN | They prepare legal documents and sound as if they should be on the board |
| POETRY | It "lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar," per Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| PLAGIARISES | They use other's words or ideas as if they were their own (11) |
| SMARTALECKS | They annoyingly behave as if they know everything (5,6) |
| SEEME | "If they could ___ now!": 2 wds. |
| WRAPUS | What uncovered presents might say to you, if they could speak |
| SWEETCHARITY | *"If They Could See Me Now" musical |
| YOUREPUTTINGMEON | What eight answers in this puzzle might say if they could talk? |
| OWNER | Children wondered if they could go back and circumvent proprietor |
| ENLARGEABLE | Learn beagle is changing — it's not as big as it could be! |
