| FOIEGRAS | As if Gore lost something that's controversially consumed (4,4) |
| RIA | First bit of aria lost - something that's drowned (3) |
| SLIPOVER | VIP loser lost something to wear (8) |
| DENTAL | Poor Dante lost something to do with extraction perhaps (6) |
| GARBLED | Confused tabloid's turnover having lost something of circulation |
| TINYCHEF | Diminutive character whose Nickelodeon show was controversially canceled in June 2025 |
| APOSTASY | A Pole, say, controversially repudiating religion (8) |
| CASEMENT | British diplomat and Irish revolutionary controversially hanged for treason in 1916 (8) |
| GROUNDED | Underdog controversially unable to fly (8) |
| LEONARDO | Artist to whom the painting Salvator Mundi has been controversially attributed |
| DIURETIC | I cured it, controversially generating more waste (8) |
| CAFFEINE | Face fine controversially for stimulant (8) |
| HONEYBEE | He crossed Boyne controversially with English colonist (8) |
| DEFOREST | Controversially, extreme divers free to remove trunks |
| ENNOBLED | Aim to have Le Bon controversially made a peer, say (8) |
| MALCOLMX | Influential US African-American leader who controversially said that the Kennedy assassination was an example of "chickens coming home to roost" (7,1) |
| CLARKSON | Jeremy ..., TV presenter who controversially said that "no part of the 20th century has caught up with Norfolk yet" (8) |
| BENEDICK | Nine-time champ Ben Chan was controversially dethroned in Final Jeopardy! last week after ending this Shakespeare character's name with a "T" instead of a "K" |
| PAN | In which Rooney Mara was controversially cast as Tiger Lily (3) |
| THEWHIP | What seven 24 MPs lost, or what 2 used controversially |
