| LIEDETECTORS | Opens 14 across for sensitive types, as they can tell if things are not as you say they are (3,9) |
| SEEM | Things are not as bad as they ___... |
| HEELERS | As you say, they make better herding dogs (7) |
| SNOWFLAKES | Sensitive types some say but they are all unique (10) |
| TREERINGS | They can tell you the age of an elm |
| TELEPATHS | They can tell what you're thinking |
| DROPOUTS | Medico chooses to include nothing; you say they abandon the course (8) |
| FISHWIFE | Opens 14 across for mate - a coarse type that shouts she's married to one of the swimmers! (8) |
| BOOKS | Opens 14 across for school guides (5) |
| GREEKS | Opens 14 across for Pole living in Athens (6) |
| TESTIMONIALS | They say they are good workers as they promise the gates to the old footballers (12) |
| ESCAPERS | They tend to get away as often as they can, as they don't like living in what can only be described |
| TOOTHFILLINGS | They stuff canines with, say, two things: about as much as they can eat (5,8) |
| DOMINANCE | Pups start struggling for ___ as soon as they can walk. This dominance play can be fatal for a pup. |
| TAKESDOWNAPEG | Makes someone realise they are not as good as they thought they were (5,4,1,3) |
| CYNIC | One "whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be," per Ambrose Bierce |
| AMATEURS | As mature as they can be, they are playing for love (8) |
| CHARLOTTESWEB | *Children's book whose title character says "If I can fool a bug, I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs" |
| TENNISRACKET | Opens 14 across and 1 across for one of those serving their time with strings attached (6,6) |
| IDENTITYCARDS | They prove carriers are who they say they are (8,5) |
