| SPINELESS | Like a paperback that's lacking in character? (9) |
| TEXTURELESS | Initially trace extinct old wild ox, smaller, lacking in character? |
| CASED | Examined closely, not like a paperback (5) |
| BOOKTOKEN | Voucher allowing purchase of a paperback, for example (4,5) |
| INANIMATE | Prisoner taken round a part of UK that's lacking vitality (9) |
| ASTHMATIC | Finding inspiration difficult, perhaps, as with recurrent idea that's lacking direction (9) |
| STONECOLD | Don't close building that's lacking heat (5,4) |
| SKETCHY | Like an outline that's lacking in detail |
| SPIRIT | A drink that's lacking in body? |
| TUITION | Sixth sense that's lacking in education |
| ANARCHIC | Uninhibited singer with style that's lacking in control |
| ILLBRED | Green and black with scarlet? That's lacking in refinement! (3-4) |
| IRRATIONAL | Rashly rail about inclusion of allowance that's lacking in reason (10) |
| SAD | Southern Democrat touring area that's lacking in cheer? (3) |
| BLAND | British country that's lacking in taste |
| UNENTERPRISING | Fiddle Peter is running that's lacking in initiative (14) |
| SPIN | Political discourse a little lacking in character (4) |
| PETTY | Small-minded, rather lacking in character, ultimately |
| CATTLE | Cows Conservative post-war prime minister lacking in character (6) , |
| SOULLESS | Bland, lacking in character (8) |
