| FEEBLEMINDED | The weak are looked after by the dim-witted (6-6) |
| COASTLINE | General word for shore or where the land meets sea, 780 UK miles of which is looked after by the National Trust (9) |
| SHEFFIELDS | Family looked after by "The Nanny" |
| LAURIE | Stephen Fry's comedic partner at Cambridge who went on to play the dim-witted Bertie Wooster and a cane-wielding US diagnostician (6) |
| FREDO | The dim-witted Corleone |
| HELPLESS | Weak are more unco-operative (8) |
| PROTECTORATE | State controlled and looked after by another |
| ACHILLESHEEL | A cold fish accepting she is the weak point (8,4) |
| NURSERY | Place where children are looked after (7) |
| STABLES | Place where horses are looked after (7) |
| DAIRYFARM | Home where grass addicts are looked after (5,4) |
| CONTAINER | Where chests are looked after, is writhing outside of emergency room in awful pain (9,5) |
| DAYCARE | Place where kids are looked after |
| MONTANA | Butte, Boulder and Great Falls (they were evidently running out of people to name towns after by the time they got here) are found in this US state on the Canadian border |
| CHASTE | Pure and sought after, by the sound of it? (6) |
| BEFOREMIDNIGHT | Bring the dim foe to destruction at the eleventh hour (6,8) |
| LIGHTHOUSE | Structure with a lantern room such as the one at Portland Bill or the one situated on Longstone Rock formerly looked after by Grace Darling's father (10) |
| BEESWAX | Honey- and nectar-scented substance made by the insects looked after by apiculturists, used for candles, lip balm, furniture polish and such like (7) |
| EPPIEC | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of that name by George Eliot |
| EPPIECASS | Young girl looked after by Silas Marner in the 1861 novel of that name by George Eliot |
