| OUTOFSTEP | Unable to supply favourite items, slipping up, misreading the Zeitgeist |
| EARRING | Jewellery item slipping, article secured (7) |
| VIBESHIFTS | Big changes in the Zeitgeist, as suggested by the circled letters in this puzzle? |
| GILDAAGE | When actress Radner captured the zeitgeist? |
| STEP | Stage return of favourite items (4) |
| OUTOFTUNE | Unable to supply song with dissonance? (3-2-4) |
| DERRINGDO | Slipping up, party to daughter's heroic action |
| LOANWORDS | Terms borrowed from other languages, such as zeitgeist, algebra, and kerfuffle |
| EXTRATIME | Taximeter's misreading that could lead to penalties? (5,4) |
| WRONGFOOT | Put off, perhaps, by scanner's misreading of text |
| IMPULSIVE | Reckless one, primarily misreading heart rate, injected with IV (9) |
| CONFUSING | Misreading |
| MISTAKING | Misreading |
| DESCANT | Half the brides are unable to supply vocal accompaniment (7) |
| OUTOFCHARACTER | Unable to supply card that's so unusual |
| DRY | Dull because unable to supply alcohol? (3) |
| RICHARDI | No good slipping up, wanting to do in king (7,1) |
| PASSWORD | Item to be kept secret? Mostly dull fool slipping up (8) |
| ETHOS | Zeitgeist, for those about to translate (5) |
| PETFOOD | Favourite item to eat? Meaty snacks or seeds, maybe |