| SELFISHGENE | Book and concept of Richard Dawkins (7,4) |
| ATHEISTIC | Describing the theological outlook of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, for example (9) |
| ALOHA | Hawaiian word and concept invoking a spirit of love, commonly used as a greeting and farewell (5) |
| EVENTUALIS | Climate activists used this Greek legal word and concept to describe government's climate protection inertia: Where a person can foresee that their conduct is likely to cause the death of another, but |
| YANG | Yin and -; concept in Chinese philosophy based on binary opposites (4) |
| REPLICATION | "In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic ____, some people are going to get hurt, [...] and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" (Richard Dawkins) |
| SHOWONEARTH | Ali's question about our planet appears in Dawkins work |
| THEGREATEST | Ali's question about our planet appears in Dawkins work |
| MEME | Word for a unit of cultural inheritance originally used by Richard Dawkins to de-emphasise the gene as the only unit of natural selection (4) |
| GENE | The Selfish ___: Richard Dawkins" landmark book on evolution. (4) |
| NAIROBI | Birthplace of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (7) |
| THESELFISHGENE | Book on evolution by Richard Dawkins (3,7,4) |
| DNA | "___ just is. And we dance to its music": Richard Dawkins |
| SCIENCE | "The poetry of reality," per Richard Dawkins |
| GODSEND | Has Richard Dawkins proclaimed it a welcome event? (7) |
| RANDOM | "Natural selection is anything but ___": Richard Dawkins (6) |
| ATHEISM | Richard Dawkins' persuasion |
| ATHEIST | Richard Dawkins, notably (7) |
| APES | "We admit that we are like ___, but we seldom realise that we are ___": Richard Dawkins (4) |
| ALANON | Group with 12 steps, traditions, and concepts |
