| DETECTORS | Devices for discovering, finding, sensing or uncovering things such as CO, metal, RF or smoke (9) |
| DETECTOR | A device for sensing or finding buried treasure, carbon monoxide or smoke, for example (8) |
| POS | RF or LF |
| NOSING | Slag off singalongs for uncovering things belonging to others (6) |
| LEARNING | Discovering, finding out (8) |
| SOUNDINGBOARD | An acoustic device for discovering the opinion of the directors! (8-5) |
| ABSCISSAS | BASIC compiled two directions as co-ordinate values (9) |
| ASSISTANT | Help little worker as co-worker (9) |
| BUCKHENRY | American actor, screenwriter and director who received Oscar nominations as co-writer of The Graduate and co-director of Heave Can Wait (4,5) |
| APOSTOLIC | Carrying out mission, working as co-pilot (9) |
| COLLISION | Crash between two moving things, such as cars or planes (9) |
| INTHEWASH | Where things (such as flowers in Beds) come out (2,3,4) |
| AMERICANA | Things such as six down answers in this puzzle |
| SMALLBEER | Trifling things, such as half-a-pint of bitter? (5,4) |
| CLUSTER | A mass of galaxies or stars bound by mutual gravitational attraction; or, any bunch or group of similar or joined things, such as grapes or islands (7) |
| CORONETS | Word for little crowns, garlands or wreaths, hence diadem-like encircling things, such as bejewelled or floral circlets, heraldic supports for crests or cuticular bands around hooves (8) |
| INSULIN | John Macleod, who taught for years at CWRU forerunner Western Reserve, won a 1923 Nobel Prize for discovering this hormone |
| STUMPS | Word for truncated things, such as pencil ends, residual limbs or remnants of felled/fallen trees; "timbers" forming wickets; wooden legs; or, tortillons for blending in art (6) |
| SETS | Word for collections of things, such as props/scenery; damp hairdos after shampoos; last layers of plaster on walls; wirelesses or goggle-boxes; or, young fruits, onion bulbs or plants (4) |
| SPOTTERS | General word for hobbyists or enthusiasts who enjoy observing things such as planes, trains, rocks or birds (8) |
