| MOLECULE | Spy's heartless lie regarding copper a tiny bit (8) |
| EARLIER | Overhear lie regarding prior involvement (7) |
| POSE | Lie regarding absent model (4) |
| IDEOLOGICAL | Iago upset with cold lie regarding beliefs (11) |
| ORICHALC | From the Greek for "mountain" and "copper", a yellow metal prized in ancient times (8) |
| GOLFBAGS | Jokes about old short, heartless lie produced around the clubs (4,4) |
| AFICIONADO | A heartless lie leads to trouble for a fanatic |
| PLATE | Household utensils in gold or silver collectively; a high-quality illustration inserted into a book; or, with "copper", a graceful style of calligraphic handwriting (5) |
| ASHE | Pen name under which John Creasey wrote his Patrick Dawlish novels including A Puzzle in Pearls, A Clutch of Coppers, A Nest of Traitors and A Blast of Trumpets (4) |
| MODICUM | Doctor gets stupid with copper a bit (7) |
| LEAH | Woman getting a husband after heartless lie |
| AFICIONADOS | A heartless lie succeeded stopping trouble from fans |
| SLEIGHT | Deception of heartless lie, in a sense |
| FLAME | - test; scientific experiment in which potassium burns with a bright lilac-coloured blaze, copper a bluegreen blaze and lithium crimson-red (5) |
| VERDIGRIS | From "green of Greece", a bluish-green patina or aerugo that forms on brass, bronze or copper; a pigment of cupric acetate; or, the colour (9) |
| CUTOFF | Exclude copper, a well-dressed person |
| WOLFCUB | Blow up fellow copper, a former junior Scout (4,3) |
| CUPCAKE | Sweetheart in America giving copper a peck, foolishly (7) |
| HEPCAT | The drunk grabbing copper, a cool dude? (6) |
| ASS | Stupid person who gave Roman copper a shilling (3) |
