| FRICTION | It's why we don't slip right into fantasy (8) |
| NUMISMATICALLY | It's why, we hear, you and MacMillan work together in currency-collector fashion (14) |
| STEP | "Watch your ___!" ("Don't slip!") |
| ERR | Slip right into East River |
| ESCAPISM | Caught in impasse, organised retreat into fantasy |
| DREAMER | Suspect male reader is one into fantasy |
| LIPS | ...as they somehow slip right under your nose! (4) |
| ACTUALLY | In fact, it's why article is all cut up (8) |
| TOBESURE | Of course it's why one requires proof (2,2,4) |
| PATIENTS | "Treating illnesses is why we became doctors. Treating ____ is what makes most doctors miserable." (8) (Dr House in House) (8) |
| CLEMENCY | 150 eastern men see why we need mercy (8) |
| HIDEAWAY | Why we had to rebuild first-class bolthole (8) |
| AMNESIA | Why we don't remember the men who struggled in Asia? |
| HYENA | Why we don't start with an ascendant animal? |
| CHICKPEAS | And as soon as she arrives at our table, Ed always says, "___!" And that's why we don't go to salad bars with Ed. |
| ERRORS | Slips right on back with horse dropping flanks (6) |
| ILLITERACY | Writer's block? It's why one is unable to read anything into it! (10) |
| ONEHITWONDER | The meteorite that did for the dinosaurs? It's why we've never heard from them again! (3-3,6) |
| ACCEPTEDFACT | Don't reject writer finding piece of information - it's why the judge said it was admissible (8,4) |
| THEKNOW | Essentially, it's why sea, sky and current give that in which we have information (3,4) |
