| EPSTEIN | Worker in 16, genius at home becoming quiet (7) |
| ROPEIN | Guy at home becoming dragoon |
| COMPLY | Observe pretty sweetheart becoming quiet (6) |
| RETIRING | Soldiers weakening, becoming quiet |
| LONESOME | Left one's East End home - becoming solitary |
| UNTENDED | Without a plan to lose home, becoming derelict (8) |
| ROBESON | In 1960, who sang to construction workers at the Sydney Opera House, becoming the first artist to perform there? - w 5dn (4,7) |
| BATGIRL | She is the tech genius at Super Hero High. |
| SETFREE | Unit on the house becoming loose |
| PAUL | In 1960, who sang to construction workers at the Sydney Opera House, becoming the first artist to perform there? - w 6dn (4,7) |
| FINANCIALWIZARD | Genius at figures who's done a spell at the Treasury? (9,6) |
| ALLENGINSBERG | Beat poet who taught "African-American Poetic Genius" at Brooklyn College: 2 wds. |
| SPORTSBRAIN | Genius at baseball and football trivia? |
| SAUTEING | Genius at cooking is frying quickly (8) |
| ITPRO | Genius at the Apple Store, e.g. |
| WHOLEWHEATBRAIN | Genius at a bakery? |
| POCHARD | Tea in place of pea in 16 (7) |
| FORSTER | Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years, the novelist who wrote A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India (7) |
| WIDGEON | Nothing winged, otherwise in 16 (7) |
| MALLARD | Drink about the lot back in 16 (7) |
