| AFI | Non-profit US film body which produces annual lists of the ten most influential films and television |
| FORTNITE | #1 on Wired magazine's list of the 10 most influential video games of the 2010s |
| FBI | It has a list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives |
| BONEMARROW | Spongy tissue of the body which produces red and white blood cells and platelets (4,6) |
| LIMMUD | Anglo-Jewish educational charity which produces annual festivals on the theme of Jewish learning (Hebrew) (6) |
| AGAIN | More profit, America first |
| SANTA | ___ Baby: 1954 song which has been on lists of the best, and worst, Christmas songs (5) |
| LOTS | Lists of the songs by Capital's groups (4) |
| BIRTHDAYPRESENT | Third party's been ordered to produce annual gift (8,7) |
| OAK | Tree that is one of the ten most common street names in the US |
| JANEGOODALL | The world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she made Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people, released last week |
| SAN | Start of the names of three of the 10 most populous U.S. cities |
| NFL | Org. with nine out of the ten most-watched telecasts of 2025 |
| TSA | Org. that releases an annual list of the year's most interesting contraband |
| DORIS | Female name of Greek origin, among the 10 most popular baby names in the US in the 1920s and 30s (5) |
| GRETA | Climate activist Thunberg who, as of December 2022, had tweeted two of the 10 most-liked tweets of all time |
| FORBES | U.S. business magazine that compiles an annual list of the world's top billionaires (6) |
| TEXAS | State with three of the 10 most populous cities in the US |
| MIKA | Acer palmatum cultivar, and one of the 10 most popular girls' names currently (4) |
| MYSPACE | News Corporation-owned Web site that's one of the 10 most visited sites in the world |
