| IZE | Suffix for real or rational |
| IST | Suffix for real or duel |
| ISM | Suffix for real or hero |
| ITY | Suffix for real or moral |
| ISE | Suffix for "real" or "final" |
| IR | Prefix for reversible or rational |
| SANE | Sensible or rational |
| ISTIC | End for real or ideal |
| AN | Prefix for real or fold |
| UN | Prefix for real or ravel |
| LINKS | Word for loops or rings of chains or mail; sausages joined together in strings; or, things, real or figurative, that bond, connect, join or tie (5) |
| EPONYM | A real or imaginary person for whom something is named; or, the name or title so derived (6) |
| BALLAST | Weighted material for stabilising a ship or balloon; or, anything, real or figurative, that provides steadiness (7) |
| HERO | A real or fictional man of distinguished bravery; a demigod; a champion; or, the leading male actor or protagonist in a film or novel (4) |
| WIG | False covering of real or synthetic hair for the head worn as a costume or to cover baldness |
| STORY | Word originally for a historical account that came to mean a tale, real or imaginary, told for fun (5) |
| FLORILEGIUM | From "flower-gathering", a collection of blooms, either real or illustrated in a book; or, a literary anthology, garland or spicilege (11) |
| UTOPIA | A real or imaginary society, place or state, considered to be perfect or ideal (6) |
| RELEASE | From "stretch out again, slacken", a word for acquittance, emancipation, liberation, remission, a setting free or other real or figurative unshackling (7) |
| UTURN | Word for a backtrack, change of policy, flip-flop, rethink, volte-face or other real or figurative reversal (1-4) |
