| ISOLDE | Wagner's heroine is old, eyeless and short. (6) |
| BAZAAR | Outlet where Samson was eyeless, headless and confined by lawyers (6) |
| HUXLEY | "Eyeless in Gaza" novelist, 1936 |
| ALDOUS | "Eyeless in Gaza" author Huxley |
| ALDOUSHUXLEY | Eyeless in Gaza author (6,6) |
| GAZA | Eyeless in ___(Becker and Bates) |
| KNITS | Cardigans, jumpers and other woollies by means of machines or long eyeless needles (5) |
| OLDFOGEY | In cold fog, eyeless, he fusses? |
| SPADEEND | An eyeless hook (*needs pad) (5-3) |
| BLIND | Describes an eyeless hook (5) |
| ARMSAND | And 17 1894 stage play by George Bernard Shaw whose heroine is Raina Petkoff (4,3,3,3) |
| DILEMMA | Austen's heroine is after a short fool - it's a problem (7) |
| BAITINGTOEXHALE | Flick whose heroine is lured to blow out? |
| CLARISSA | Richardson's heroine is seized by dreadful rascal (8) |
| HOUSEOFMIRTH | "The ___", Edith Wharton novel whose heroine is Lily Bart (5,2,5) |
| CRESSIDA | Tragic heroine is scared to move (8) |
| LASONNAMBULA | 1831 opera by Vincenzo Bellini whose heroine is Amina (2,10) |
| NORTHANDSOUTH | Elizabeth Gaskell novel whose heroine is Margaret Hale (5,3,5) |
| ANNA | Tolstoy's heroine is brought up unchanged |
| APAIROF | See 161873 novel by Thomas Hardy whose heroine is Elfride Swancourt |
