| THUNK | Conceived in a nonstandard way |
| BARRETTEMAVERICK | Girl who wears hair clips in nonstandard ways? |
| TIGER | In draw poker, a nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, five cards 3 to 9 |
| SKEET | In draw poker, a nonstandard hand sometimes given value in a private or home game, any hand containi |
| MUSAK | Perfume includes a nonstandard background element (5) |
| RECORDS | Guinness World -; conceived in 1954 as a book of facts to solve arguments in pubs, a reference book published annually, often given at Christmas (7) |
| TESTTUBEBABY | It's conceived in lab but beset by a fluid after a time (4-4,4) |
| FRANKENSTEIN | Novel conceived in 1816, the "year without a summer" after a ghost story challenge from Lord Byron |
| RALEIGH | Privateer who led two expeditions in search of the fabled lost city of gold, El Dorado, and fathered three sons with Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton, including Carew, conceived in the |
| BUIDOI | "Miss Saigon" song with the lyrics "The dust of life conceived in hell and born in strife" |
| ONTARIO | Where in Canada is the town of Swastika, Where Unity Mitford, friend of Adolf Hitler, was conceived in 1913? (7) |
| ETHEREUM | A crypto-currency platform conceived in 2013 by programmer Vitalik Buterin (8) |
| TAO | The natural way of the universe as conceived in Chinese philosophy |
| OED | Ref. conceived in 1857 |
| AFORETHOUGHT | Conceived in advance (12) |
| IDEA | Intelligent solution conceived in one's brain |
| LEOS | Most are conceived in November |
| SIXTIES | Apollo was conceived in them |
| TAICHI | Martial art originally conceived in Haiti possibly (3,3) |
| ANEW | "...__ nation, conceived in liberty..." (2 wds.) |
