| UBOATS | University School after characters in 33 down - in the sink business, they rarely put their heads above water (1-5) |
| YAHOO | Uncouth person, named after characters in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| AMIDSUMMERNIGHTSDREAM | Three Uranian moons are named after characters in this Shakespeare play |
| FREETRADERS | Business, they think, should not be a matter of duty (4,7) |
| SASHA | A 33-Down in 'Peter and the Wolf' |
| ICON | 33-Down, in rock 'n' roll history |
| SITTINGDUCKS | Easy targets put their heads down in meetings (7,5) |
| NAPS | They put their heads down for a daytime sleep (4) |
| UMBRIEL | One of the 27 known moons of Uranus named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare or |
| URANUS | With 27 moons named after characters created by either Alexander Pope or William Shakespeare, the seventh planet from the Sun (6) |
| MIRANDA | One of the Uranian moons named after characters from The Tempest (7) |
| INKS | Found in the sink and makes different faces in the paper (4) |
| SPUTNIK | As put in the sink, perhaps, or in outer space (7) |
| KNIVES | Those washed up with some of the vessels in the sink, perhaps (6) |
| MESSY | Like a roommate who leaves dishes in the sink and socks on the sofa |
| ISSUE | Question I shan't settle, until experts put their heads together |
| ONLY | Just one nursery lets youngsters put their heads together |
| CONFERRED | Put their heads together, as were given to (9) |
| VISCID | Sticky Vicky, Scot and Ida put their heads together (6) |
| HAIRS | Bits left over in the sink after shaving |