| NEEL | Portraitist Alice, whose subjects who seem to gaze straight at the viewer |
| EXTREME | Head off next group of soldiers who seem to be quite intense (7) |
| ADIA | Female song subject who becomes a female opera subject when the middle letters are flipped |
| LENORE | Poe subject who "died so young" |
| MOM | Tattoo subject who might disapprove of tattoos |
| ARIANA | Singer who seems to still be dating the guy who played SpongeBob in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical" |
| FULLFACE | Complete effrontery, looking straight at the camera? (4-4) |
| STUDENTIDCARD | Kid at a college bar who seems, to me as a bouncer, too young to allow in |
| JACKOFALLTRADES | Guy who seems to be good at everything |
| ELON | "Businessman" Musk who seems to be addicted to losing money |
| NEAT | Straight at the bar |
| ORTHO | Straight at the beginning? |
| HOOF | Though it sounds like a problem that plagues a horse who seems to always say the wrong * thing, ___ in mouth disease is a real illness that can affect horses, cows, sheep and pigs |
| THIRDEYE | A brain's pineal gland, believed by some to be the source of spiritual insight; or, the Ajna chakra through which to gaze in yogic drishti (5,3) |
| YEARS | They are put on one who seems to be ageing (5) |
| POTTER | That rotter has a new leader who seems to show little energy or purpose |
| ADDISON | Essayist and poet who seems to have had a disease |
| NOVICE | A beginner who seems to be a bit too perfect |
| PARTOF | & 14 Chair for person who seems to be a permanent feature (4,2,3,9) |
| SNEEZY | One of Snow White's seven dwarfs who seems to have a perpetual cold (6) |
