| ELF | A bit of an angel face, one imagines (3) |
| EEN | "__ like the passage of an angel's tear": Keats |
| ROC | It could carry an elephant, one imagines (3) |
| HALO | Circle of light around the sun or moon; or, such an aureola around the head of an angel/saint in a painting (4) |
| EFIT | Digitally generated representation of a face (1-3) |
| JOWL | Part of face one should start jeering? Hooter (4) |
| DALI | Artist's face, one shifting to one side (4) |
| ACROSSTHEBOARD | How chess players face one another is affecting everyone (6,3,5) |
| CHURCH | Charlotte _, released Voice Of An Angel at the age of 12 (6) |
| CONFESSION | Face one's sin with difficulty, avoiding a revelation? |
| HOTWATERBOTTLE | Having trouble with face, one's taken to one's bed |
| SPINE | Part of a book that paradoxically faces one when shelved (5) |
| MANA | Freeman of "Angel Face" |
| LONELY | ___ Night (Angel Face) 1975 song by Neil Sedaka that peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 |
| LETO | Jared who was Angel Face in Fight Club (4) |
| PRIMAFACIE | At first blush seems prudish but has a face one could be into (5,5) |
| ALBANBERG | Austrian composer whose 1935 violin concerto is dedicated 'in memory of an angel', to Manon Gropius, daughter of Mahler's widow by her second husband |
| ITALIC | Face one tense girl who's lost energy (6) |
| DIPSTICK | Daughter with cosmetic obscuring face, one concealed under bonnet? |
| GRIMACE | Face one, at the stern (7) |