| HORTICULTURE | Hit or affect society and science (12) |
| INTERFACE | Place or area at which different things meet and communicate with or affect each other (9) |
| MAKEITUP | Effect reconciliation - or affect it? (4,2,2) |
| HASAMELTDOWN | Loses control, or affects a Geiger counter? |
| RUNSOUTOFGAS | Tires, or affects a fuel gauge? |
| BRACKETOLOGY | Art and science of predicting the field (12) |
| STIMULI | Things or effects that arouse or excite? (7) |
| ASSETS | Property or effects |
| CAUSE | Effect, or effect's partner |
| SPECIAL | ------ delivery or ------effects (7) |
| SENDSSHOCKWAVES | Has a broad impact, or affects a seismometer? |
| GOESFROMZEROTOSIXTY | Suddenly takes major action, or affects a speedometer? |
| TURNSUPTHEHEAT | Adds pressure, or affects a temperature gauge? |
| SINKSTOANEWLOW | Exceeds one's previous depravity, or affects a depth gauge? |
| WORLD | Word for Earth and its collective inhabitants that is extended to mean the universe or cosmos, society and public life (5) |
| ROSSETTI | Painter noted as a founder of the secret "PRB" society and for his idealised depictions of Alexa Wilding, Fanny Cornforth, Jane Morris, Lizzie Siddal and other models or muses he dubbed "stunners" (8) |
| DEMOBS | Germany finds Mafia society and takes away guns and uniforms (6) |
| REPRESENTS | It's about the here and now for society and what that symbolises (10) |
| DAWKINS | Biologist, fellow of the Royal Society and author of books including The Blind Watchmaker, Unweaving the Rainbow and The Magic of Reality (7) |
| GALBRAITH | John Kenneth ___, Canadian-born US economist and diplomat who wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State |