| PRETENDERS | The group may have been popular, but they were not what they seemed (10) |
| OTHER | Can get some hot herbs, but they were not the same (5) |
| ILEXES | We're common around Christmas in Illinois, we're not what we were |
| CREAM | The pick of the group may well get whipped (5) |
| SQUASHED | The woman in the group may be humiliated (8) |
| ASSET | A second group may have real value (5) |
| CONGLOMERATE | Industrial group may have gone to Carmel (12) |
| DEMOCRATIC | Comedic art designed to be popular with all (10) |
| BESTSELLER | Thing that's bound to be popular? (10) |
| GODOWNWELL | Be popular (2,4,4) |
| POETRY | It "lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar," per Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| MINI | How little they made of them in the '60s, but they were driven big time! (4,6) |
| MINORS | How little they made of them in the '60s, but they were driven big time! (4,6) |
| ABLE | "And they were not ___ to resist the wisdom" (Acts 6:10) |
| MOONLIGHT | Alice Faye sang, "We could hear the voices ringing; They seemed to say; 'You have stolen her heart; |
| OWL | Which bird did David Lynch use as a recurring motif in his Twin Peaks series, with the Log Lady warning they "are not what they seem"? (3) |
| IMPOSTORS | They're not what they seem in sport, so I'm upset (9) |
| SEEM | "The owls are not what they ___" (ominous line in Twin Peaks) |
| IMPOSTERS | I'm taking advertisements - they're not what they seem (9) |
| ILLUSIONS | Things seen in the distance are not what they seem! (9) |
