| CHOPPER | Axe a helicopter |
| RACK | From French for "axe", a dish of chopped cooked meat and potatoes, reheated with or without gravy/sauce; a jumble, mess or mixture; the # sign; or, from "fodder, hay, herbage", a short name for the re |
| HASH | From a French word for an axe, a coarse chopped mixture of recooked meat/potatoes; or, thought to derive from cross-hatching, the # symbol (4) |
| HEW | Axe a tree |
| ABOLISH | Axe a throwback, sort of? |
| TOMAHAWK | Light axe, a weapon (8) |
| STRATA | Axe A levels |
| GHERKIN | The ___ , nickname of 30 St Mary Axe, a commercial London skyscraper (7) |
| ANOREXIANERVOSA | Axe a version or an emendation for psychological condition (8,7) |
| ORYX | From the Greek for "stonemason's axe", a genus of African antelope (4) |
| ANNULAR | Axe a finale from Wagner, like The Ring (7) |
| ROTOR | A circumvolving part in a dynamo, generator or turbine; the winder of a clockwork watch; a wing of a helicopter; or, a violent lee eddy associated with turbulence (5) |
| ROPELADDER | Set of rungs used to climb up to a tree house, or deployed from a helicopter in a rescue mission (4,6) |
| AIRCRAFT | A plane, a helicopter or a balloon (8) |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
