| FINER | Higher quality, the ... things |
| ACOUSTICS | Sound quality, the ... of the room |
| ARABICA | Coffee from the beans of a plant originally indigenous to the Ethiopian Highlands, higher quality than robusta (7) |
| AJAX | Trojan War hero and king of ancient Salamis - he was the particularly strong one, for which quality the cleaning products were named after him |
| BURNETT | Frances Hodgson -; author of around 40 novels including A Lady of Quality, The Secret Garden and The Lost Prince (7) |
| NIP | A chilly or frosty quality; the pinch of biting cold; damage to the edges of tender plants by said frost; or, a small dram of spirits (3) |
| NOBLER | Displaying a higher quality |
| BETTER | Higher quality |
| EXCELLENT | Higher quality |
| SUPERIOR | Of higher quality or rank (8) |
| BETTERMENT | Higher-quality fellows to firstly reach amelioration |
| GREATERGAITER | Cloth leg covering of higher quality? |
| HDRADIO | Digital technology that provides higher-quality sound |
| CHOICER | Higher quality vocalists entertaining clientele on vacation |
| BUILD | _ quality, the Triumph Stag was plagued by such issues (5) |
| BETTERMIX | Higher quality package of ingredients for making cakes, pancakes, etc (6,3) |
| RANSOME | Author of the Swallows and Amazons series as well as The Child's Book of the Seasons, The Things in our Garden and The Book of Friendship (7) |
| RICKROLL | Song-based trick wherein the things the singer's "never gonna" do to you describe the theme answers, in order |
| ANGELA | Davis who said "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept" |
| KILL | "The Things You ___" (film nominated in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, which will be held Jan. 23-Feb. 2; entrants were announced yesterday) |
