| ENTHUSIASM | Eager liking or interest (10) |
| ENGAGEMENT | A user's interaction with social media, such as liking or sharing (10) |
| MONOTONOUS | Dull and lacking in variety or interest (10) |
| SPECIALITY | Expert's skill or interest |
| SOLIDARITY | Agreement in aims or interests (10) |
| GENERALIST | One with skills or interests in many areas (10) |
| SHINE | Brightness or lustre; a liking or fancy; dash or excellence in appearance or quality; old slang for a party; or, an act of polishing (5) |
| FANCY | A little iced cake or dainty; the faculty of imagination; a capricious liking or whim; or, a pale blue, green, rose, yellow or other distinctively coloured diamond (5) |
| AFFINITY | Strong liking or feeling of kinship (8) |
| HITTINGITOFF | Feeling a liking or affiliation (7,2,3) |
| INCLINATION | Liking or preference to slope (11) |
| PREDILECTION | Special liking or preference (12) |
| PENCHANT | A habitual liking or tendency to do something (8) |
| BYWAYS | Word for little-travelled, often rural, minor paths, sideroads or tracks; or, by extension, obscure or secondary areas of knowledge or interest (6) |
| SPHERE | Another word for a ball, globe or orb; or, a field of activity or interest (6) |
| MEH | Expresses indifference or lack of enthusiasm or interest (3) |
| PALLID | Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness. (6) |
| FOCAL | _ point; a central location - or and item - of attention or interest (5) |
| CLUB | Playing card with a black trefoil; or, an association of people united by a common goal or interest (4) |
| RATE | Word with "birth" or "interest" |
