| TROMPELOEIL | Visual illusion of Lorelei to create split with politician (6,5) |
| OPART | Catch nothing reflecting visual illusion of movement (2,3) |
| COOEE | Regularly echo Lorelei to call for attention |
| LOOS | Creator of Lorelei Lee |
| HAVES | The rich create splits by the sound of it |
| MOONWALKING | Dancing backward while creating an illusion of forward motion ... and a hint to what's seen in the circled letters |
| MCESCHER | Dutch artist known for his use of visual illusion and paradoxical perspective (1,1,6) |
| LOEIL | Visual illusion in art that gives the appearance of reality; French, 'deceives the eye' (6,5) |
| TROMPE | Visual illusion in art that gives the appearance of reality; French, 'deceives the eye' (6,5) |
| SHADING | Blending, hatching, scumbling or stippling to give an illusion of umbrae in art; the effect of dark/light; gradations; slight nuances; or, lowering of prices (7) |
| ZOETROPE | Device that spins to create the illusion of motion |
| OEIL | Trompe l'___ (Visual illusion) |
| MIRAGE | Illusion of sticky situation surrounding a head of government (6) |
| OCCIPITAL | Going round Channel Islands, optical illusion of the back of the head (9) |
| DOCETIC | Believing in an illusion of Christ, refer to fish being turned |
| SEESDOUBLE | Observes an illusion of two of everything |
| TRICKLE | Create illusion of getting an Irish ship into a small stream? |
| DEJAVU | Being almost jaded somehow leads to very uncomfortable illusion of memory (4,2) |
| ANIMATOR | Producer of cartoons that give the illusion of movement |
| ANIMATION | Creation of illusion of movement (9) |
