| AMBIENT | Genre of downtempo instrumental background music played during study, yoga, meditation or relaxation (7) |
| MUZAK | Background music played in public places (5) |
| LOFIHIPHOP | Downtempo music that some people study to |
| TRIPHOP | Downtempo electronica genre |
| SLOWJAMS | Downtempo R&B songs |
| DEN | A cave, lair or valley; a secret hideout; a private room for study or relaxation; or, a haunt of iniquity (3) |
| MUDRA | From the Sanskrit meaning "seal", each one of a series of hand gestures used during meditation or yoga (5) |
| BROWN | A word simply meaning "dark" in Old English, later a colour such as coffee, hazel, mocha, sepia or umber; or, with "study", a state of daydreaming, meditation or reverie (5) |
| EDITOR | Newspaper or publishing boss who was "demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos" according to Ambrose Bierce in h |
| NOTES | Jottings taken during study or minutes taken during meetings (5) |
| GERONTOLOGY | Old study torn to bits during study of earth (11) |
| SPIRITUALWORK | Meditation or mindfulness, e.g. ... or what the starred clues' answers could engage in? |
| RUB | Source of annoyance, or relaxation |
| STATISTICS | Figures sit back during study of bodies at rest (10) |
| MEDITATE | Focus one's mind for a period for spirituality or relaxation (8) |
| AWAYDAY | A short trip taken for pleasure or relaxation (7) |
| MANTRA | From Sanskrit for "instrument of thought", a sacred word/syllable such as "Om" recited in meditation; or, any frequently repeated motto/phrase (6) |
| JAZZY | Like the background music of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" |
| SEDERUNTS | Prolonged sittings, as for reading or relaxation |
| DOWNTIME | Leisure or relaxation (8) |
