| IMAGINED | Being game, I made a din or thought that I did (8) |
| CHIRM | A flock of goldfinches; said birds' cheeping; or, a din or hum of voices (5) |
| NOISED | Made a din |
| IMAGE | Picture of game I made up (5) |
| HATEME | "Are you really annoyed that I did that?" |
| ANTONY | Who says "That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true" |
| PAINTING | Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did ___ need, / And therefore to your fair no painting set: / I found , or thought I found, you did exceed / The barren tender of a poet's debt |
| LACROSSE | Cromarty's partner wearing flimsy fabric, being game (8) |
| ROUNDERS | King got in lots of drinks, being game (8) |
| RIDICULE | Laugh at clear clue I made a mess of (8) |
| PINGPONG | Being game Bolt put medal around Powell's head |
| WILDFOWL | One leads bold restructuring in battle, being game (4,4) |
| WILDBOAR | One leads bold restructuring in battle, being game (4,4) |
| ARTIFICE | React if I made a mess of trick |
| DAYDREAM | A series of pleasant thoughts that distract one's attention from the present (8) |
| LATITUDE | Scope for freedom of action or thought (8) |
| EASYREAD | Book that doesn't require much time or thought |
| PRECEPTS | Rules intended to regulate behaviour or thought (8) |
| ABATTOIR | Slaughterhouse - the Irish poet Seamus Heaney remarked that it is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as one |
| NUMERACY | It's the thought that counts? (8) |
