| EARGASM | Feeling of auditory bliss, in a modern coinage |
| POSSIBLE | Conceivable wild bliss in a piece of poetry (8) |
| TEMPEST | Marie, English actress whose stage roles included Judith Bliss in a 1925 production of Noel Coward's Hay Fever (7) |
| FREECYCLES | Gives away to a better home, in a modern coinage |
| UNICORN | Start-up worth a billion dollars, in a modern coinage |
| BFF | Close buddy, in a modern coinage |
| BABYMOON | Vacation taken by expectant parents, in a modern coinage that tends to make childfree people cringe |
| TRUTHER | One believing conspiracy theories, per a modern coinage |
| GLAMP | Sleep outside without sacrificing comfort, per a modern coinage |
| SMIZE | Smile with one's eyes, per a modern coinage |
| GOBLINMODE | Id-embracing ethos, per a modern coinage |
| RIZZ | "Style, charm or attractiveness," per a modern coinage |
| HEARING | Faculty of auditory perception; an audience; an opportunity to be listened to; or, a type of judicial investigation without a jury (7) |
| MIDDLEEARTH | Part of auditory equipment obscured half of that Tolkien creation |
| EAR | Gamers have a sharp ___ (sense of auditory perception) |
| ANNUSMIRABILIS | I ruin a man with bliss in dissolution - a fantastic time |
| WIFEGUY | Modern coinage for a conspicuously doting husband |
| NINEVEH | Bliss in getting back, away from a city |
| NIRVANA | State of bliss in Buddhism (7) |
| EDEN | Place of bliss, in Genesis |