| TEARONESHAIROUT | Our hero in a state unfortunately, appear distraught (4,4,4,3) |
| ILL | Type of luck our hero in dire straits often has (3) |
| DEFICIENT | Nice and deft, I unfortunately appear less than complete |
| RIGUP | On debut, girl unfortunately appears in split dress (3,2) |
| HENRYLONGFELLOW | Poet who extolled our hero |
| PERISH | Die a bit of a hero in a shipwreck (6) |
| ALASKA | State unfortunately upset a king |
| ALASKAN | Person in isolated state, unfortunately -- then another, briefly (7) |
| WHODUNNIT | Story in which our hero is busy? (9) |
| ROAR | Our hero argues and lets out a bellow (4) |
| TAM | Short word for a woollen cap that derives its name from that of a hero in a poem by Robert Burns (3) |
| RANCID | Hurried with a hero in a bad way |
| STRIKESHOME | Hits a chord with Kismet's hero in a frenzy (7,4) |
| TWIST | Don't stick a hero in a Victorian novel (5) |
| SADLY | Dull at the margins within state, unfortunately (5) |
| AFTERTASTE | Subsequent state unfortunately remains following eating (10) |
| EROSE | Notched up by our hero, seemingly (5) |
| EXCANTABO | I will sing or charm out (more subtle than our hero's ways) |
| BUCKROGERS | Spaceman hero in a U.S. newspaper comic strip first published in 1929 (4,6) |
| ULEE | Apiarist hero in a Victor Nunez film |
