| SEX | "Emotion in motion," per Mae West |
| MOVES | Keeps in motion, and goes from one place to another |
| STIR | Tumult, set in motion & jail (4) |
| MAEWEST | "Sex is an emotion in motion" speaker |
| ART | "A jealous mistress," per Emerson |
| EMO | "Music's most maligned genre," per critic Tom Connick |
| GROWINGUP | "Losing some illusions ... perhaps to acquire others," per Virginia Woolf |
| HATRED | The "vice of narrow souls," per Balzac |
| DATA | "The world's most valuable resource," per The Economist |
| BEEGEES | "Britain's first family of harmony," per Brian Wilson |
| CHESS | "The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal |
| EDSEL | "The motor industry's Titanic," per a 1994 book |
| JAZZ | "The big brother of the blues," per B.B. King |
| RIC | "Emotion in Motion" singer Ocasek |
| OCASEK | "Emotion in Motion" singer |
| DURAG | "Anyone who has ever worn a ___ spells it '___,'" per a 2018 New York Times article |
| NOONE | Who is "too small to make a difference," per a Greta Thunberg book title |
| TRAVELSICKNESS | Discomfort from motion and flapping of valences and skirts |
| ORBS | "... harmony in the motion and magnitude of the __ ... ": Copernicus |
| MECHANICS | Branch of applied mathematics dealing with motion and forces producing motion (9) |
