| AUNTSALLIES | People or things set up as easy targets for criticism |
| DIGESTIBLE | Some novel bits, eg, ideally set up as easy to understand |
| SITTERS | Those who pose as easy targets (7) |
| SAPS | Easy targets for scammers |
| STATUES | From "things set up", word for cast or carved effigies of humans or animals, such as the "Landseer's Lions" (7) |
| COUNTERPOINTS | Things set up in contrast with one another |
| GROT | Fictional chain of shops selling useless things, set up by Reggie Perrin (4) |
| AUNTSALLY | Relative's friend is an easy target for criticism (4,5) |
| FAIRGAME | Reasonable target for criticism (4,4) |
| PIES | Things set on windowsills to cool |
| INITA | Coepta, incepta; things set in motion, like New Year’s resolutions |
| PUSHOVER | Easy target for a slick salesman |
| BABYSITTER | Prow of boat in inlet -- easy target for one with charge (4-6) |
| SOFTTOUCH | Easy target for a loan (4,5) |
| LABORATORYCHUMP | Easy target for scientists to experiment on with bad practical jokes? |
| SITTER | Easy target for a model (6) |
| SITTINGDUCKS | Easy targets put their heads down in meetings (7,5) |
| POPINJAY | A parrot or a figure of it set up as an archery target; or, alluding to said bird's mimicry and showy plumage, an extravagant, foppish, gaudy, garrulous or peacockish person (8) |
| IMPLANTS | Things set in body |
| TINES | Things set in a fork |