| MENWALKONMOON | 7/21/69 New York Times headline (8-9, 12-13) |
| SINGERS | Promiscuous person's abandoned by wife, or 1, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 24, 25, 26 Across and 1, 2, 5 and 22 Down (7) |
| TOADS | "National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking ___" (New York Times headline) |
| IJBOL | "___ Is In. LOL Is Out." (2023 New York Times headline) |
| TRUSS | "The Lettuce Outlasts Liz ___" (2022 New York Times headline) |
| GROUCHO | Crab and duck featured as 1, 12, 13, 14, 16, 23 and 24 (7) |
| CONCERT | Performance by 1, 11, 12, 13, etc. formerly in old TV display (7) |
| SUPERPATRIOTISM | 11 or 12 13 13 20 (15) |
| OCEANS | With 11, 12, 13 or 8 films as once directed (6) |
| ROCKYMOUNTAINS | Denver backdrop (letters 4-5, 6-7 and 12-13) |
| DIGITAL | 5 for one who is 9 12? (7,6) |
| ISOSCELESTRIANGLE | It has two equal sides (Letters 9-12 & 14-15 ... and, separately, 13) |
| CARTHAGE | 7 21 at Dido's place (8) |
| LIGHTBRIGADE | A disastrous blunder, telling these men in 7 21! (5,7) |
| SLIMY | "Okra Is So Much More Than Its ___ Reputation" (Los Angeles Times headline) |
| CREAMTEA | “Sainsbury’s apologises for ____ faux pas in Cornwall” (Times headline in 2021) |
| IUD | "Getting an ___ Hurts. Why Aren't More Women Offered Relief?" (Times headline) |
| WIPEOUT | "John Swinney feared general election ‘____' for SNP" (Times headline, December 2024) |
| STREAMER | Terms are distorted in such a headline (8) |
| SCREAMER | Bowler claiming credit for sensational headline (8) |