| SHOWERED | Strangely he rose, weakened when disheartened, and fell rapidly (8) |
| RUNDOWN | Reverse into river when disheartened and exhausted (3-4) |
| DILUTED | Weakened when the flute part died out (7) |
| CASCADED | Fell rapidly |
| THEMADHATTER | Strangely, he dreamt that he drank with a dormouse (3,3,6) |
| HIGHPRIEST | Caiaphas, perhaps -- strangely he is right to keep quiet (4,6) |
| PLUMMETED | Fell rapidly |
| TUMBLED | Fell rapidly (7) |
| STARLING | Gregarious singer's dramatic when disheartened (8) |
| WATTYLER | Power to depend on rising, so he rose (3,5) |
| SOLDERED | Served in the army - when disheartened, stuck together |
| SEAHORSE | Small fish wriggled as he rose (3,5) |
| HOMELESS | See me entering various hotels, disheartened and without a place to live (8) |
| HELPLESS | Lend a hand to the French sisters who are disheartened and can't manage |
| RATTEDON | Kept talking though disheartened and betrayed (6,2) |
| WHITEHOUSE | ... strangely he's almost without energy delivering presidential address (5,5) |
| ANOD | "... and giving ___, up the chimney he rose" |
| NOD | "And giving a ___, up the chimney he rose" ("A Visit From St. Nicholas" excerpt) |
| TREASURED | Cherished time and when disheartened, dispelled fears (9) |
| SADDER | 'A ___ and a wiser man,/He rose the morrow morn' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) |
