| MUTE | Button that some Zoom participants still haven't mastered after months of virtual meetings |
| AMI | Person to speak to after months of French Duolingo, perhaps |
| HEAR | "Can you ___ me?" (First question in some Zoom calls) |
| NDA | Thing signed before some Zoom calls, for short |
| AUGMENT | Guys getting credit, finally, after month of increase (7) |
| DECLINE | Row after month of deterioration (7) |
| ROMCOM | Type of film showing end of panic after months in space (6) |
| SPENSER | Poet noted for his portrayal of virtues through knights' quests in The Faerie Queene and a series of 12 eclogues named after months in The Shepheardes Calender (7) |
| CLASSICALMUSIC | Accepted as a standard by American after months in charge of what Mozart produced (9,5) |
| MOONSHINER | After months alongside the Rhine, sadly he's working still (10) |
| MUTED | Like some forgetful Zoom participants |
| TAMAGOTCHI | Its inventors won an Ig Nobel prize "for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual pets" |
| UFOS | I keep watching the sky but I still haven't seen any of these |
| ALEMBIC | Still bitter maybe, writer, after months |
| METEORIC | Remarkably rapid dissolution of coterie after months (8) |
| MANXMAN | After months, US chopper picks up North Islander (7) |
| SEXEDUCATION | School subject preparing 'seduction" exam after months off? (3,9) |
| GUARANTEE | After month's up, endlessly mouthed off before end of the contract (9) |
| MATE | Fellow worker's letter brought up after months (4) |
| METEOROLOGICAL | Relocate igloo abandoned after months being concerned with the weather (14) |
