| TIGHTROPEWALKER | One's well-balanced, mean, wielding real power over king (9,6) |
| SNAKEINTHEGRASS | Unhappy giantess shaken over king becoming a treacherous person (5,2,3,5) |
| HEALTHANDWEALTH | With which one's well on the way to being a millionaire! (6,3,6) |
| OURMUTUALFRIEND | Novel is one well-known to each of us (3,6,6) |
| THEPROMISEDLAND | Moses proposed it - as one well knows it - but didn't, alas, live up to it! (3,8,4) |
| HELMSMAN | Director on board of old rail company, introduced to chap with real power |
| IVANKATRUMP | Mischievous Mr V. Putin ? aka "The Real Power in the White House?" (6,5) |
| TINPOT | Descriptor for a dictator with no real power |
| OROSAY | Where in Scotland ducks have a bit of real power (6) |
| TITULAR | Have a purely formal position without any real power (7) |
| PROPER | Real power after changing sides (6) |
| CEREMONIAL | Cinema role (anag) a€“ having no real power (10) |
| FIGUREHEAD | A nominal leader without real power (10) |
| DOTARDS | Ones well past their prime |
| NAMEDROPS | Flaunts one's well-known connections: 2 wds. |
| EAGLE | As old comic, one's well below par |
| OASIS | Love meeting when one's well (5) |
| NOTABLE | One's well-known but talentless (7) |
| TAILOR | One's well-suited after seeing one or following one who follows (6) |
| TOOTHLESS | Without real power |
