| IVORYTOWER | Place from reality |
| FUGUE | From "flight", a contrapuntal composition in which a number of parts/voices enter successively in imitation of each other; or, a psychogenic flight from reality (5) |
| ESCAPISM | Decampment through diversion, flight from reality, mental relief via the imagination, solace in fantasy or other retreat from the everyday world (8) |
| ESCAPE | Diversion (from reality) |
| LALA | In ___ land (detached from reality) |
| RANDY | Hot tips from reality shows (5) |
| ESCAPIST | One fleeing from reality |
| FLIGHTOFFANCY | Departure from reality |
| ESSEX | Appropriately named Joey from reality TV (5) |
| PSYCHOSIS | Mental state of disconnection from reality (9) |
| SPACECADET | Step with scoundrel into group, person distanced from reality (5,5) |
| ESCAPISTS | Those who use diversions to retreat from reality |
| CLOUDCUCKOOLAND | Obscure sort of clock light is an escape from reality (5-6-4) |
| ONANOTHERPLANET | ?Magic throne flying round' ___ patient finally divorced from reality (2,7,6) |
| DAYDREAMING | Form of mental detachment from reality, wool-gathering, blue-sky thinking, castles in the air.. (11) |
| OUTTOLUNCH | Uncouth lot growing removed from reality (3,2,5) |
| EERILY | Levitations from reality television, in a spooky way (6) |
| OPTICALILLUSION | Something that deceives the eye by appearing to differ from reality (7,8) |
| INANOTHERWORLD | Hardliner now excited about religious books is detached from reality (2,7,5) |
| ARABELLA | "And when she needs to shelter from reality, she takes a dip in my daydreams", Arctic Monkeys (8) |
