| HIGHFLOWN | Extravagant or pretentious in conception or intention (4-5) |
| NOTION | Conception or mental picture (rhymes with lotion) |
| CARBONEAR | 'The Town That Says You're Welcome.' in Conception Bay north in newfoundland |
| BAFFLEGAB | Colloquialism for incomprehensible or pretentious bureaucratic jargon, logorrhoea or verbiage characterised by prolix abstract circumlocution, aka gobbledegook or mumbo-jumbo (9) |
| OVERBLOWN | Inflated or pretentious ? (9) |
| PARTYGOER | One of those celebrating is a bit pretentious in GPO organising somewhere for the casualties (9) |
| FOPS | Leaders in fashion or pretentious show-offs? (4) |
| IDEA | A letter less than perfect in conception (4) |
| MACARONI | Tubes of pasta; a dandy, exquisite or fop who exaggeratedly imitated continental fashions; something extravagant or fanciful; or, a medley (8) |
| WHY | The cause or intention underlying an action or situation esp in the phrase "the whys and wherefores". |
| ENDGAME | Final stage or intention of something (3,4) |
| EARNEST | Serious in mind or intention (7) |
| PSEUD | A poseur or pretentious person - P.S. due to return (5) |
| ARTY | Making a strong or pretentious display of creativity (4) |
| LADIDA | Detective in car is pretentious in a manner of speaking (2-2-2) |
| OUTRE | Extravagant or fantastic (5) |
| PROFLIGATE | Wildly extravagant or wasteful (10) |
| GOSSIPS | An abstract idea; a plan or intention; or, an invention that helps to market a product (7) |
| DEVICE | Word for a desire or intention originally, later a contrivance, drawing, heraldic emblem, motto, peripheral, plan/plot, smartphone or tool (6) |
| EVIL | Word with "eye" or "intention" |
