| NOR | Conjunction used in negative phrases to introduce the second member in a series, as in 'Ai-___' and Clematis '___'easter' (3) |
| SLAT | Thin narrow piece of wood, plastic, or metal used in an overlapping series as in a fence or venetian blind |
| ISNTNOT | Double negative phrase used when beating around the bush |
| IFORONE | Wordy phrase to introduce your opinion |
| MOTTOES | Phrases to live by |
| TROY | Attempt to introduce the second of horses here? |
| RANSOME | Author of the Swallows and Amazons series as well as The Child's Book of the Seasons, The Things in our Garden and The Book of Friendship (7) |
| ETHANE | A colourless, odourless, and flammable gas, the second member of the alkane series (6) |
| VISHNU | In Hinduism, one of the three chief gods, the second member of the Trimurti (6) |
| JHOPE | The second member of BTS to have enlisted in the South Korean army (1-4) |
| FRAN | - - - Cotton, one of the few men to have won a Lions series as both a player and a coach or administrator (4) |
| COGNITION | The symbolic, or top-down, approach in AI research seeks to replicate intelligence by analyzing _________ independent of the biological structure of the brain, in terms of the processing of symbols (9 |
| NVIDIA | Company that overtook Microsoft as the most valuable in the world, driven by dominance in AI chip supply and significant stock growth. (6) |
| RODNEY | Identify the first name of this Aussie bowler who took more than 40 wickets in his very first Test series in 1978-79 that happened to be an Ashes series as well. (6) |
| BERRA | Winner of ten World Series as a player and three more as a coach |
| PULLSOMESTRINGS | The second member of the trio said he'd ... |
| SPACEBAR | Keyboard control pressed to introduce the gap between words in a computer document (5,3) |
| AND | Conjunction used to join words and phrases (3) |
| ANDOR | Conjunction used in business contracts |
| SCHEMED | Planned to introduce the church in having routed the Medes (7) |
