| MEGATRON | Character Whose backstory will be explored in the upcoming "Transformers One" |
| ADDY | American Girl doll whose backstory includes escaping a slave plantation |
| KEY | Keegan-Michael who voices Bumblebee in Transformers One |
| HAMM | Transformers One voice actor Jon |
| TESLACOIL | A transformer, one welcomed by upstanding group of neighbours? |
| REMOTE | ______ surgery, or telesurgery, was explored in the 1970s by NASA, which was interested in its application for astronauts in orbit (6) |
| CAVE | Underground type of chamber studied in speleology and explored in the activity spelunking (4) |
| AUTISM | Subject explored in the BBC drama series The A Word (6) |
| TART | Pop-___ (food item whose history is explored in the recent Jerry Seinfeld-directed movie "Unfrosted") |
| ANDROGYNY | Subject explored in "The Crying Game" |
| ISLAM | Faith explored in the show "Ramy" |
| PREQUEL | Quietly request saint be replaced by a novice in the backstory (7) |
| TITAN | Giant ice moon orbiting Saturn, scheduled to be explored by Nasa's Dragonfly spacecraft in 2034 (5) |
| SPACE | Room to be explored by astronauts (5) |
| TERRAINCOGNITA | Intricate organ, perhaps yet to be explored (5,9) |
| REEF | Formation that might be explored by a snorkeler |
| BADARTFRIEND | "Who Is the ___?" (viral Times Magazine article about a literary feud, whose theme of fictionalizing others' lives without permission is also explored in Andrew Lipstein's 2022 novel "Last Resort") |
| NERDSPLAINS | Goes into extreme detail about the backstory of the Scarlet Witch, say |
| UNCHARTED | Like territories that haven't been explored yet |
| TREE | Family unit explored in "Who Do You Think You Are?" |
