| THINGAMY | Fine, spirited person whose name escapes me |
| SOANDSO | Disliked person, one whose name escapes me (2,3,2) |
| THINGY | Weak heartless guy whose name escapes me |
| WHATCHAMACALLIT | Catch llama with a bent -- - ? Its name escapes me (15) |
| ALEC | Guinness who wrote "My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor" |
| SCHMIDT | John Jacob Jingleheimer ___ (person whose name, coincidentally, is my name too) |
| ELUDES | How to schedule return, without a short chapter, escapes me (6) |
| ERI | "___, _ don't know." (The answer escapes me) |
| HOUDINI | The answer to this clue escapes me! (7) |
| CHURL | Mean-spirited person |
| DISTILLER | Princess remaining royal, spirited person? |
| SPLATTERPUNK | Spirited person holds record for violent fiction |
| MISER | A stingy or mean-spirited person (5) |
| BEANS | A lively, high-spirited person is said to be full of ___ |
| PLAYFUL | Spirited person initially rested with rotten flu (7) |
| EPONYM | What do we call a person whose name is thought to be the source of the name of a city, country, etc (6) |
| SCOT | Many a person whose name starts Mac |
| DONOR | Person whose name appears on a museum plaque, e.g. |
| ADDRESSEE | Person whose name is on the envelope (9) |
| THINGUMMY | Slim, toothless person whose name one's forgotten |
