| NOETIC | From Greek for "perceive, think", a word for the activity or functioning of the intellect, aka cognition; or, the philosophical exercise of reason (6) |
| DISTURBED | Interfered with the normal arrangement or functioning of (9) |
| PLAY | Games or exercise taken for recreation; a dramatic work for stage or screen; an old word for the activity of gambling; or, the courtship performance of animals (4) |
| MAILBAG | Result once of the functioning of the Dartmoor sewers |
| MINERALS | Inorganic elements that are essential to the functioning of the human body |
| JOURNALISM | The activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, websites or other media (10) |
| IRONING | The activity or chore of pressing clothes and sheets; or, the laundry and linen due to be smoothed (7) |
| CANOEING | The activity or sport of paddling a light, narrow boat (8) |
| TWITCHING | Common or informal name for the activity of birdwatching (9) |
| BOATING | General name for the activity of rowing, sailing or punting (7) |
| TIMBROLOGY | Old name for the activity of stamp-collecting or philately (10) |
| SINGING | Word used to describe the hissing or sizzling sound when cooking fruited hinnies on a griddle; or, the activity of chorusing, crooning, hymning or wassailing (7) |
| ABERRATION | A wandering of the intellect (10) |
| BRAIN | Seat of the intellect and of sensation (5) |
| NOESIS | Activity of the intellect |
| PHRASAL | Of or relating to or functioning as a phrase (7) |
| INTUITION | "One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the - with its symbolic thinking." Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Wat |
| MIND | Take care of the intellect (4) |
| PHYSIOLOGY | Branch of science that deals with the normal functioning of living organisms (10) |
| WORKING | Employed from 9 to 5, for example; or, functioning generally (7) |
