| HATE | What Graham Greene called a "failure of imagination" |
| DEBACLE | Extremely disconsolate graduate, regularly called a failure |
| GANGRENE | A necrosis of part of the body resulting from a failure of blood supply to that part (8) |
| BREAKDOWN | A failure of the engine of a vehicle (9) |
| FAMINE | Result of a failure of the monsoon, perhaps |
| AMISS | A failure, of course, is wrong (5) |
| POSNER | Legal scholar and "A Failure of Capitalism" author Richard |
| OVERSIGHT | A failure of management (9) |
| LAPSE | A failure of, say, memory (5) |
| FLIGHT | A journey through the air; a flock or body of airborne arrows, birds, insects etc; the swift passage of time; or, a wandering of imagination or fancy (6) |
| FANCY | A little iced cake or dainty; the faculty of imagination; a capricious liking or whim; or, a pale blue, green, rose, yellow or other distinctively coloured diamond (5) |
| MAGI | With a bit of imagination, it could be a wise trio (4) |
| SCHEMA | Word for a plan or diagrammatic outline; or, a concept included in Kant's theory of imagination (6) |
| ROSSINI | Tell composer endless passage needs a bit of imagination |
| FICTION | A work of imagination (7) |
| CHIMERA | Big Ben, for example, a fantastic piece of imagination |
| GNOME | In the garden, he adds a touch of imagination |
| TALL | Does such a story come from the heights of imagination? (4) |
| FIGMENT | Men held by a strange gift of imagination perhaps (7) |
| WILDE | Victorian playwright who said: "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination" (5) |
