| HEDGEFUND | Money invested in topiary, whimsically, by duke |
| INGEST | Eat whimsically, by the sound of it? |
| CLIPPERS | Fast sailing ships used in the tea trade; or, shears used in topiary (8) |
| OPHIDIA | Reptiles, concealed in topiary, go outside no longer |
| GLOBES | Shapes into which box trees (Buxus) can be clipped in topiary; or, three-dimensional models of Earth (6) |
| CICERONIC | Cold hitman whimsically topped one who invigorates in orator's style |
| MANMADE | Mock butler whimsically in conversation? |
| DIRT | Crushed Oreos, whimsically, in some desserts |
| BAROQUE | Nothing in the ship is whimsically rococo (7) |
| RHETORICAL | Whimsically perhaps writing to Charlie - rambling, flamboyant in style |
| GREYBEARDS | In Derby, 'agers' whimsically described as such? |
| SNOWDROPS | Galanthophiles' esteemed "milk flowers" forming the collective blizzards, carpets, cheers, drifts, flurries, hopes, joys and nods by which they are whimsically known (9) |
| PYGG | Name, similar to the clay that is punningly said to have made hog-shaped pottery guardians or banks for coins, for porkers whimsically flying in a world of impossibilities (4) |
| SHAGGYDOGSTORY | Whimsically long-drawn-out tale (6-3,5) |
| DROLL | Whimsically comical (5) |
| CAPRICIOUSLY | Impulsively, whimsically (12) |
| NUTS | Whimsically eccentric persons |
| DROLLER | More whimsically humorous |
| CRACKPOT | A whimsically eccentric person (8) |
| NODDER | Whimsically Cain became one east of Eden escorting stranger |
