| HANDPUPPET | Odd bits of hope and elevated love: one's readily manipulated for show |
| EASYTOUCH | Someone readily manipulated (4,5) |
| SAPPHO | Love poet has elevated love, penning pages |
| CASH | Derived from the Italian meaning "money box", one's readily available funds in the form of coins and banknotes collectively (4) |
| SUCCOUR | One's readily taken in, so I hear, for help (7) |
| ENNOBLED | Maid of Orleans uplifted, guided and elevated (8) |
| OVOLO | One projects 'Love, love, love' (one's cut up) (5) |
| ARMADILLO | "If you should ever choose / To bathe an ___, / Use one bar of soap / And a whole lot of hope / And seventy-two pads of Brillo": Shel Silverstein |
| GLORY | Land of Hope and ___, one of the Pomp and Circumstance marches |
| ASOKA | Emperor of India c. 269-232 BC who converted to Buddhism and elevated it to the official state religion (5) |
| CASHBACK | Account HSBC bank regularly manipulated for financial incentive (8) |
| JUDGMENTDAY | Puppet containing magnet daughter manipulated for the last time? |
| KINKAJOU | Tree creature in Kojak manipulated for all to see? |
| CARTRIDGE | Ammo vehicle is on mountain's continuous and elevated crest (9) |
| ILLUMINATI | Enlightened and elevated, I beat two crossing Scots isle (10) |
| EROSION | Love one, love one's heart being eaten away |
| ELGAR | Composer of "Land of Hope and Glory" (5) |
| VAGRANCY | Wandering, almost gave up before finding a bit of hope around south-eastern state (8) |
| MAGYAR | Hungarian publication with a bit of hope to get backing |
| PEPUP | Stimulate a youngster with a bit of hope |
