| TRUTHS | At heart, the plain facts can possibly hurt |
| BLACKWHITE | Contradiction of plain facts, in "1984" |
| TRUTH | In plain fact, a letter can possibly hurt |
| CAPTAINFLINT | Pirate at sea in plain fact close to arrest (7,5) |
| IWAR | At heart The Big Bopper is of some people |
| IGBO | At heart The Big Bopper is of some people |
| ATHLETE | At heart, the French had to take note of a top runner (7) |
| BOWEN | Novelist who wrote The Last September, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day and Eva Trout (5) |
| HOPEVALLEY | Quaint setting of "When Calls the Heart", the 2014-debuting Hallmark drama inspired by the books of Canadian author Janette Oke who was born in the village of Champion in southern Alberta: 2 wds. |
| LARGEST | Popular gestures are at heart the greatest (7) |
| FOURTH | Possibly hurt of one below the top three (6) |
| CORE | The heart / the foundation |
| GASMETER | Losing heart, the gamers destroyed what's under the stairs? (3,5) |
| PROSPER | Succeed. Right through the heart the point goes (7) |
| TURFACCOUNTANT | Person at Epsom in fact can turn out deranged (4,10) |
| INTRUTH | As a matter of fact, possibly hurt following international (2,5) |
| SCATHE | Haggard woman adopting pet, possibly hurt (6) |
| THRUSH | Air traveller possibly hurt by a bit of a crash |
| TEACUP | Under interrogation by the Queen of Hearts, the Hatter "bit a large piece out of his ____ instead of the bread-and-butter" |
| WHEAL | Big eater taking to heart the end of die Welt |
