| FAIRYSTORY | Ray is forty - or is this just made up (5,5) |
| OLDWIVESTALE | Somehow lead two lives. Or is this just a story by former brides? (3,5',4) |
| MIDDLEAGED | Maybe forty or fifty liable to spread? |
| BOHEMIAN | _____ Rhapsody, song that begins 'Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?' (8) |
| UPDATELINE | "This just in..."? |
| STAYCATION | No passport required for this,just an express - as was the case on the S&C in 2020 (10) |
| GITE | Is this just the thing in centre of Agen? |
| QUEENANSWER | What might follow "Is this just fantasy?" in "Bohemian Rhapsody"? |
| THECHEQUESIN | We have heard the man from Prague is taking the post - or is this another lie? (3,6'1,2,3,4) |
| THEMAIL | We have heard the man from Prague is taking the post - or is this another lie? (3,6'1,2,3,4) |
| TONNEAU | ... or is this the appropriate cover? (7) |
| MICTEST | "Hello? Hello?" or "Is this thing on?" |
| ADLIBBING | Giving an address one's just made up? (2-7) |
| EDAM | Here's a cheesy one just made up (4) |
| RIS | ___ for "Ricky Bubwick" (apparently a name that Sid just made up) |
| TEMPT | Nat King Cole asked, "Do you smile to ... a lover, Mona Lisa; Or is this your way to hide a broken h |
| MFS | Quirky abbreviation I just made up to mean "my friends"!!! I'm so quirky haha |
| IDYL | "American ___" (reality show I just made up where three judges decide on the best pastoral poem) |
| COINAGE | Just-made-up word |
| OREG | "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" st. |