| CANCELCULTURE | Controversial phenomenon in response to controversial actions |
| ZERO | Controversial action drama about the US hunt for Osama bin Laden, ___ Dark Thirty (4) |
| IDOL | Star's response at wedding close to controversial (4) |
| HOTPOTATO | Good books associated with Kitty in Panama ahead of opposition to controversial issue (3,6) |
| MERCYKILLING | Pity putting an end to controversial demise (5,7) |
| ENFANTTERRIBLE | Better infernal alternative to controversial person |
| PHARLAP | Racing phenomenon in the 30s, this horse beat all the competition in Australasia and then in the US |
| OHMSLAW | Name given to the phenomenon in which the current between two points is proportional to the voltage across the two points (4,3) |
| ECLIPSE | Astronomical phenomenon in bits of film shown in middle of week |
| REDTIDE | Polish article in Die Welt reflects colourful phenomenon in the main |
| THESUMMEROF | Cultural and political phenomenon in San Francisco in 1967, ... Love (3,6,2) |
| MEISSNEREFFECT | The phenomenon in which magnetic flux is excluded from a substance when it is in a superconducting state, except for a thin layer at the surface |
| GRAVITATION | The phenomenon in which all objects with mass or energy are attracted to each other |
| STORM | Violent weather phenomenon in which Harriet Finch and Liv Dingle died in Emmerdale (5) |
| IKEAEFFECT | Phenomenon in which consumers place a higher value on products they contributed to creating |
| ELNINO | Weather phenomenon in the news |
| DUSTDEVIL | Whirling phenomenon in the Southwest |
| NINA | La ___ (Weatheraffecting phenomenon in the equa torial Pacific) |
| ECHO | Sonic phenomenon in a cave |
| UFO | Mysterious phenomenon in the sky (inits)(3) |
