| DISSIPATE | Spit ideas out and vanish (9) |
| STATESIDE | Test ideas out in America |
| EVAPORATE | Prepare ground for upcoming harangue and vanish (9) |
| CHAINEDUP | In shackles punch idea out (7,2) |
| DEMATERIALISE | Made realities break down and vanish (13) |
| GOUPINSMOKE | Ascend during fog, and vanish |
| DIEGO | Spaniard nominally apt to fade and vanish (5) |
| TANGO | Take steps to administer beating and vanish (5) |
| VAPORISE | Go via ropes and vanish into thin air (8) |
| ASEED | Plant ___ (put the idea out there, metaphorically) |
| PLANTASEED | Get the idea out there, metaphorically |
| UPDATE | Put modernise idea out, (6) |
| ASTEROID | Sort idea out to see rocky celestial body (8) |
| STRENGTH | Straightened idea out, rewriting it to show brave determination |
| KATEADIE | Take idea out to celebrated former war- zone reporter (4,4) |
| DISAPPEAR | Policeman and private soldier, crossing area, vanish (9) |
| PAREGORIC | Painkiller cut to vanish, sprain to reduce (9) |
| VACANCIES | They vanish when filled! (9) |
| VIGILANTE | Poet's right to vanish before becoming amateur crime-fighter (9) |
| HOLYGRAIL | According to one set of medieval legends, what was brought by angels, guarded on the top of a mountain by a group of pure knights and would vanish if approached by anyone impure? (4,5) |
