| NONETS | Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool" group, and others |
| NONET | Group on Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool," e.g. |
| TEAMS | A Mets group and others |
| GOROUNDTHETRAPS | Tour group and others oddly taking little time (2,5,3,5) |
| WICKED | Cool group of women on deck at sea (6) |
| INSET | Picture within a picture shows cool group (5) |
| FANCLUB | What cool group will have? |
| DAVIS | Miles of "Birth of the Cool" |
| GERRYMULLIGAN | Baritone jazz saxophonist and contributor to the album Birth of the Cool (5,8) |
| MILESDAVIS | He was there at the Birth Of The Cool (5,5) |
| MILES | 2019 music documentary about a jazz legend, - Davis: Birth of the Cool (5) |
| CRASH | Collision of the cool-headed and hot-headed (5) |
| MIROS | 'The Birth of the World' and 'The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,' e.g. |
| OSAGE | "Killers of the Flower Moon: The ___ Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I." (nonfiction book adapted into a 2023 film) |
| FANTASIA | One of The 'cool' Blades in circulation trained initially in the east for musical composition (8) |
| STANGETZ | Which American saxophonist was a leader of the "cool" school of jazz? (4,4) |
| VICKI | Actress lawrence of "The cool Kids" |
| ALLIANCE | "... he will be sent on a tour around the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic ____ will follow" (Keir Hardie, five days after the birth of the future Edward VIII) |
| LUMIERE | French brothers whose invention of the Cinematographe marked the birth of the film industry (7) |
| NATAL | Of the birth of the boys (5) |
