| POLLYANNA | Vote back Buchan hero, not the first eternal optimist |
| SOONERANDLATER | Good fortune arrival times for an eternal optimist? |
| HOPE | Eternal optimist's feeling |
| TOTTER | Batting hero, not No. 2, English runs accumulator (6) |
| TAMOSHANTER | Poetic hero not so crazy about love and blunt rejection |
| TINT | Cartoon hero not in colour (4) |
| HEIRTOTHETHRONE | Unlikely hero, not hit, there with future monarch |
| IDOL | Hero not working for auditors (4) |
| FORWHATREASON | Why was hero not far off? |
| REELECT | Vote back into office for a second term |
| DOLLOP | Shapeless mass party vote back (6) |
| EASTERNCAPE | Vote back a grim head of province (7,4) |
| ANCHISES | Father to classical hero, not father to rights granted by companies to retail their products (8) |
| REELECTS | Votes back in (2-6) |
| HANNAY | Richard, hero of the John Buchan novel The Thirty-Nine Steps (6) |
| THIRTYNINESTEPS | 1915 novel written by John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940) for which Alfred Hitchcock directed the 1935 movie thriller adaptation, The ___-___ ___ |
| THIRTYNINE | John Buchan early spy novel, The ... Steps (6-4) |
| STEPS | The Thirty-Nine ___, a John Buchan novel filmed by Hitchcock and others (5) |
| GREENMANTLE | 1916 John Buchan novel featuring the character Hilda von Einem (11) |
| GOODWIFE | The ?, 2003 novel by Elizabeth Buchan (4,4) |
