| ELECTRONICS | Blend of Celtic and Norse is a subject in its own right (11) |
| SENOR | Norse is for the gentleman |
| GENOISE | An Italian version of a chiffon or sponge, served as a cake in its own right or as the basis of a lady's finger, madeleine or mokatine (7) |
| COLT | Small car from Mitsubishi, once a brand in its own right (4) |
| SUPER | Capital in its own right, or in retirement? (5) |
| ENTITY | Something existing in its own right (6) |
| WHISTLER | Painter who used musical terms including arrangement, harmony, nocturne and symphony as titles for his works and whose distinctive evolving monogrammed butterfly signature was an expressive element of |
| REEDLING | With a "ping" or "ting" call, a cinnamon-coloured bird that, despite also being called a bearded tit, sports a black "moustache" when male and is not a tit, but a species in its own right (8) |
| DEBATED | Argued and discussed a subject in a meeting or in parliament (7) |
| MATHS | Adding a subject in school, it is singular in America (5) |
| OXYMEL | From the Greek for "vinegar and honey", an ancient type of tonic and method of preserving herbs using the aforesaid sour and sweet ingredients that are reputed to have therapeutic value in their own r |
| ZELDA | First name of the wife of F Scott Fitzgerald, a novelist in her own right (5) |
| ODIN | A prominent god in Germanic and Norse mythologies (4) |
| TROPIC | Running round the world is a subject of interest outright! (6) |
| STILLLIFE | Even so, half of wildlife is a subject for artists (5,4) |
| THEME | The Middle East is a subject of discussion (5) |
| ARTICLE | Literary composition on a subject in a dictionary, encyclopedia, magazine or newspaper (7) |
| EXPLORE | To inquire into and discuss a subject in detail (7) |
| ALGEBRA | Algernon's cobra is disembowelled, leaving a subject in which letters replace figures (7) |
| STEWARD | Robert the ___, a joint regent during David II's periods of exile from Scotland, and from 1371, king in his own right (7) |
