| POPSCI | Genre for a physics article aimed at a general audience, informally |
| ACADEMIA | A key article aimed to upset the scholastic world (8) |
| CHICKFLICK | Movie marketed toward a primarily female audience, informally |
| THREEBODY | "The ___ Problem" (Liu Cixin novel named for a physics concept) |
| EQUATIONS | Some memorization for a physics test |
| EMPTYSEATS | Forms to be filled at a general election (5,5) |
| SCI | Pop ___ (chem, bio, etc. written for a general audience) |
| LINGO | Words unsuitable for a general audience? |
| USOTOUR | Entertainment for a general audience, maybe? |
| LAYLEVEL | Understandable to a general audience |
| ROMANTASY | Portmanteau genre for a love story about a dragon tamer and a rebellious princess, say |
| SLEDGE | A type of toboggan; a similar vehicle for conveying goods up and down the steep cobbled street in the fishing village of Clovelly; or, an insult aimed at a fellow player in cricket (6) |
| RESULT | Word for a consequence; an outcome aimed at; a quantity obtained by calculation; the final score in games; or, a victory/win (6) |
| UDDER | It may be aimed at a pail at 5 a.m. |
| NICHE | Aimed at a small audience, as a film |
| EMO | Likely genre for a song with a lengthy parenthetical in its title |
| SLASHFIC | Genre for a story whose author ships, for example, Sherlock and Watson |
| KPOP | Genre for a trio of demon hunters, in a hit 2025 film |
| ARTHOUSE | Describing films intended to be culturally worthy, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass audience (8) |
| TARGETED | Aimed at a small shield held in front of a boy (8) |
