| ROMANTICISING | Treating in an idealised fashion |
| IDYLL | Greek-derived word that, in essence, represents an idealised "little picture" of rural life, whether in art, music, poetry or reality (5) |
| EIDOLON | Spirit image in ancient Greek literature, or an idealised figure (7) |
| HEROWORSHIP | Admiration of an idealised person (4,7) |
| SUBLIMATE | Transform into an idealised form (9) |
| ROMANTIC | Having an idealised view of reality |
| IMAGO | This writer's past an idealised representation |
| ARCADIA | It might aid a car get into an idealised region of Greece (7) |
| UTOPIANISM | To split up and desert over the onset of marriage is an idealised vision (10) |
| REGALIAN | Treating in style |
| IODIZING | Treating, in a way, as table salt |
| HALLOWEEN | Eve of All Saints' Day celebrated with trick or treating in US |
| KNIGHT | A medieval warrior or man of honourable military rank, traditionally idealised in tales as a shining-armour-clad rescuer of damsels in distress (6) |
| SHEPHERDESS | Idealised rustic maiden in pastoral literature (11) |
| MYTHICAL | Fabulous, fictitious or idealised, as in a reference to the past (8) |
| IMAGOES | Mother leaves behind the first idealised representations in the unconscious (7) |
| HAGIOGRAPHY | Witch one harpy riled on journey back in idealised life |
| MURILLO | Bartolome, Spanish Baroque religious painter born in 1617 noted for his idealised style (7) |
| PICTUREPOSTCARD | Traditional or idealised prettiness (7-8) |
| XANADU | Idealised place of great luxury (6) |
