| FANNYADAMS | Murdered and dismembered in 1867, which eight-year-old girl's name is in the Oxford English Dictionary? (5,5) |
| MAE | "I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but this is the first time I ever made the dictiona |
| SLAUGHTER | Massacre with the bits dismembered in large huts (9) |
| RITE | Quinceanera, for 15-year-old girls |
| SORT | Kind soul bisected and dismembered rat (4) |
| TREASUREISLAND | A certain girl's name is in vogue in work of 11 Ac (8,6) |
| CANADA | Although it became a country in 1867, which country did not get its own official national flag until 1965? (6) |
| DOH | "The Simpsons" exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 |
| JESSICA | The first documented use of which name is in The Merchant of Venice, used for Shylock's daughter? (7) |
| OKAYED | Authorised letter between Jay and Ell in the Oxford English Dictionary (6) |
| SABEERA | Which 18-year-old girl won a bronze in the trap mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup for shotgun shooters held in May 2025 in Nicosia, Cyprus? (7) |
| STEERAGE | Guide for eight-year-old, for one, is synonymous with old passengers (8) |
| MIRIAM | What girl's name is the Old Testament form of the Hebrew name Maryam, that gave us Mary? (6) |
| ZED | It's last in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| VOLUMETWO | It ends with chalypsography, in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| SET | Longest entry in the Oxford English Dictionary |
| OMITTED | Skipped over "glove" in the Oxford English Dictionary (7) |
| PRAIRIEDOG | Mammal which, despite its name, is in the squirrel family |
| OSCAR | Only "Sesame Street" Muppet whose name is in the NATO phonetic alphabet (until Tango showed up) |
| MURRAY | Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary depicted by Mel Gibson in The Professor and the Madman (6) |
