| THEWORM | Dance move requiring upper body and core strength |
| MERMAID | Imaginary sea creature fabled to have a woman's head and upper body and a fish's tail (7) |
| MERMAIDENS | Mythical marine creatures, with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail (10) |
| FINGERROLL | Hoops move requiring digital dexterity |
| SOMERSAULT | Mortal uses complicated move, requiring physical skill |
| DOESTHESPLITS | Performs a gymnastics move requiring flexibility ... or enters answers into this puzzle's four shaded parts |
| PRESSUP | Arm- and core-strengthening exercise in which the body is lowered and raised in full plank position (5-2) |
| RHYTHM | Method often leading to issue for dancer's core strength |
| PLANK | Core strength exercise, similar to a push-up (5) |
| SITUP | Core-strength exercise (3-2) |
| POTPOURRI | Fragrant mixture of cannabis, rain and core of durian (9) |
| MANTLE | Layer between earth's crust and core (6) |
| ZEROGRAVITY | A total absence of both seriousness and core attractiveness? |
| SPLITS | Gymnastics moves requiring flexible legs |
| PLANKING | Core-strength exercise that maintains a similar position to a push-up (8) |
| LUNGE | Leg- and core-strengthening exercise based on fencing footwork; or, linked with "rein", a long line paired with a cavesson for schooling a horse (5) |
| HULL | Calyx and core of a strawberry; or, the husk of a grain or seed (4) |
| MUESLI | Limes and core of fruit in a salad that's eaten for breakfast (6) |
| FORASTART | In the first place, they use regular flour and core apples while making pie |
| GRAPHITE | Material used in pencils, lubricants and cores of nuclear reactors (8) |
