| NONVIABLE | Vain and noble, otherwise impossible to sustain |
| IDLE | Vain and averse to work |
| FOPPISH | Angle to hold pop creation that's vain and showy |
| ALLMOUTHANDNOTROUSERS | Boxers seen to be so vain and boastful? |
| INVASION | Looking back, sound clip in the end is awfully vain and something to do with the occupation (8) |
| FOP | A vain and conceited man, a dandy |
| PURPOSELESS | Vain and very large European boards crimson ship (11) |
| PERUVIANS | Vain and super prepared people... (9) |
| POPINJAY | A vain and talkative person (8) |
| VANILLA | Possibly vain and all wrong, but with taste (7) |
| ANNUL | Void, vain and ugly, regularly ignored (5) |
| CARLYSIMON | US singer of the 1970s hits You’re So Vain and Nobody Does It Better |
| FALSTAFF | Fat, vain and boastful knight who appears in three of Shakespeare's plays (8) |
| SIRJOHNFALSTAFF | In three Shakespeare plays, a fat, vain, and boastful knight (3,4,8) |
| LOCUSSTANDI | The right to be heard and to sustain cold treatment (5,6) |
| STAMINA | The ability to sustain prolonged mental and physical effort (7) |
| NUTRIENT | Substance used by an organism to sustain life and grow (8) |
| SEBACEOUSGLAND | One secretes nuts and bagels to sustain managing director (US) (9,5) |
| THECONSERVATIONIST | In this 1974 novel by Nadine Gordimer, the protagonist Mehring attempts to sustain nature and apartheid |
| LEASEHOLD | Easel managed to sustain form of ownership (9) |
