| PSYCHOMETRIC | Designed to test someone's personality and thought processes (12) |
| WILDSIDE | Adventurous aspect of someone's personality |
| TRYITON | See how garment appears to test someone's patience (3,2,2) |
| BRAINTEASERS | General name for logic puzzles designed to test mental acuity (5,7) |
| EDITHSITWELL | 20th Century British poet and critic noted for her formidable personality and Elizabethan dress (5,7) |
| NICOLERICHIE | US TV personality and designer (6,6) |
| HEATHERMILLS | Media personality and ex-wife of Paul McCartney |
| RUSSELLGRANT | Media personality and astrologer featured in The Express (7,5) |
| STEWED | Thought and thought and thought (about) |
| PUZZLE | Riddle designed to test skill or ingenuity (6) |
| CHICKEN | Game designed to test one's nerve (7) |
| ETUDE | Piano composition designed to test skill (5) |
| REASONING | Thought processes lead to salt, perhaps, being replaced by bit of relish |
| TERRELLA | Meaning "little earth" and thought to be an invention of William Gilbert, a globe-shaped magnet designed to simulate Earth's magnetic fields (8) |
| TWISTERS | Tongue--; sequences of words designed to test articulation, known as finger-fumblers in sign language (8) |
| IGNITION | What could spark a bit of interest in thought processes for company? |
| OCCAMSRAZORCLAM | Sea creature with logical thought processes? |
| MINDS | They have thought processes |
| LEG | Expression used in the theatre and thought to bring good luck there, 'Break a ...' |
| OPAL | Present on the surface of Mars and thought by the Ancient Greeks to be a tear of Zeus, a gemstone of hydrated silica (4) |
