| AUTOGYRO | Aircraft similar to a helicopter |
| ROTOR | Essential to a helicopter, going up or down (5) |
| STAYATHOMEDAD | Command to a helicopter parent? |
| ROPELADDER | Set of rungs used to climb up to a tree house, or deployed from a helicopter in a rescue mission (4,6) |
| HOVER | US word for a helicopter; an almost stationary flight of a kestrel or of the aforementioned aircraft; or, a brooder for keeping chicks warm (5) |
| ROMYMARS | Nepo baby who made (and deleted) a TikTok while she was grounded for attempting to charter a helicopter to get lunch with her camp friend |
| AIRCRAFT | A plane, a helicopter or a balloon (8) |
| TOMCRUISE | He underwent training such as learning to fly a helicopter to perform some of his own stunts in the Mission: Impossible films: 2 wds. |
| AIRAMBULANCE | A helicopter specially equipped to transport sick or injured to hospital in an emergency (3,9) |
| CHOPPER | A shorter name for a helicopter (7) |
| ABSEIL | To descend by rope from a helicopter (6) |
| SEAKING | Said to be looking for a helicopter |
| DDE | First POTUS to ride in a helicopter |
| HOVERSOVER | Acts like a helicopter parent to |
| HOVERED | Emulated a hummingbird or a helicopter |
| DINIPETTY | The original host of Canadian lifestyles show "Cityline" (Trivia! Early in her career she piloted a helicopter as a traffic reporter in Toronto): 2 wds. |
| KEYFRUIT | Shaped to facilitate wind dispersal, a helicopter, samara, spinning jenny or whirligig of an ash, elm, maple or sycamore tree (3-5) |
| LUCKNOW | City where Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, a helicopter pilot, shared details of Operation Sindoor at a high-profile briefing. (7) |
| AUTOGIRO | Cousin of a helicopter |
| STOPPEDONADIMESTORE | Landed a helicopter atop Woolworth's? |
