| DREAMILY | in a fanciful way |
| STAIRS | Flighty in a fanciful way, but they have saintly manners |
| GOLDCREST | Flier beginning to greet lords etc in a fanciful way (9) |
| CLOUDCUCKOOLAND | Storage facility in Switzerland perhaps is timely for the birds or for the dreamers in a fanciful place (5,6,4) |
| ALLEVIATE | Lessen severity of Hebrew patriarch in a fanciful tale |
| REVERIE | From "be delirious, dream, rave", a word for a fanciful or visionary notion; an oneiric state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; or, a piece of music evoking a dreamy atmosphere (7) |
| CHIMERA | Husband engaged in a crime deviously? It's a fanciful idea (7) |
| CURLICUE | A fanciful flourish in handwriting (8) |
| CONCEIT | Conservative leader in thrall to anti-European magnetism? A fanciful notion! (7) |
| OLDWIVESTALE | Two A-levels I'd failed? A fanciful story |
| FOLLY | Built purely for ornamental whim, a fanciful "eye-catcher" such as a chinoiserie pagoda, grotto, mock-Gothic arch, prospect tower or sham ruin (5) |
| BIBELOTS | From a fanciful French formation based on "beautiful", a word for knick-knacks or curious trinkets; or, miniature books (8) |
| ROMANCE | Give a fanciful account of a love affair (7) |
| RUMPUS | A fanciful word for a boisterous brouhaha, commotion, kerfuffle, row, ruction or other noisy uproar (6) |
| WHIMSY | Why one manuscript adapted a fanciful idea (6) |
| ANTONIO | Merchant with a fanciful notion (7) |
| ARMED | Ready to fight for a fanciful dream |
| ROMANTICISE | Paint a fanciful picture of creationism, possibly (11) |
| QUIP | A fanciful jest (4) |
| YARN | A fanciful tale of those Magyar nights (4) |
