| FABULIST | Lark fails but it's an elaborate story! (8) |
| TAPESTRY | It's an elaborate wall hanging, yet parts are damaged (8) |
| TALLTALE | Elaborate story, perhaps |
| SOURGRAPES | With nothing sure, grasp fails - but it wasn't worth the effort (4,6) |
| WEARTHIN | Begin to fail, but succeed covering ground |
| SILLS | "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." She was an American operatic soprano who won international fame many years before her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1975, at a |
| SOLDIERON | Quickly holding hands, about to fail, but keep going |
| TRAVESTY | Attempt to include a piece of underwear, but it's an absurdity! (8) |
| MISMATCH | Bond's boss put one shilling on the game, but it's an unsuitable pairing (8) |
| FLOURISH | Mass of blossom on a fruit tree; an elaborate or flowery passage of words; a grandiose fanfare; or, an ornamental embellishment in handwriting or scrollwork (8) |
| BESANCON | Engineering graduate is an elaborate fraud (8) |
| CREATION | Word for the act of making; the artefact made; an elaborate or unusual garment, hat etc; or, the cosmos (8) |
| COMBOVER | Trump has an elaborate one |
| HIGHMASS | An elaborate service for the dear mother ship (4,4) |
| HANDJIVE | 1950s dance resembling an elaborate patty-cake |
| SPINAWEB | Create an elaborate series of deceptions |
| ORNATELY | In an elaborate way |
| ARGOSIES | In 1.1, Salarino speaks to Antonio and says, "Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your ___ with portly sail" (and keeps on going with an elaborate description). What is he describing? |
| CANNON | Sounds like an ordinance, but it's an ordinance I flee from that loudly sounds off! (6) |
| PERQUISITE | Mistakenly queries tip, but it's an incidental benefit |
