| FORTES | Strong personal attributes (of character or skill) |
| SELFDEPRECATING | Sad and left creeping around, being modest about personal attributes? |
| RESOURCES | Personal attributes one may see scorer use in play |
| TRAIT | From the Latin "to draw", a word for a touch of a pen or pencil in a picture originally, later a distinguishing feature of character or mind (5) |
| DIGNITY | Nobility of character or noble conduct or bearing |
| SPINELESS | Having no strength of character or courage (9) |
| VESTEDINTEREST | Strong personal concern in a state of affairs (6,8) |
| TENDON | It forms a strong personal attachment (6) |
| PRESENCE | Strong personal aura (8) |
| VENUS | Some of the seven useful attributes of a goddess (5) |
| ETHIC | Old film: Gary Cooper in High Noon, say, had a strong personal one. |
| ARROW | One of the attributes of Roman love god Cupid with bow and quiver (5) |
| SADDLERY | Which type of shop sells items that vary in their attributes of tree, panels, gullet, seat, pommel, cantle, skirt flap and billets? (8) |
| LEGSLIPS | Cliched attributes of female who might catch you out? (3,5) |
| HOLLOWLEGS | Attributes of prodigious eaters, it's said |
| CREDITS | Attributes of metal polishes (7) |
| VERSATILE | Eva Lister showing the attributes of a good variety artist (9) |
| QUALIFICATIONS | Attributes of a job seeker (14) |
| EGOS | Attributes of the conceited |
| RETIREE | The first eerier attributes of an old age pensioner perhaps |
