| PEERER | One with a searching gaze |
| QUEST | Whether a knight's crusade for the Grail, a pilgrim's progress to a holy place, a philosopher's pursuit of truth, a hound's hunt for game or a computer's scan for data, it is a word, from "ask, seek", |
| PEER | Give a searching look to one's equal? (4) |
| AUDITOR | His is a searching examination by all accounts |
| AUDIT | A searching examination, by all accounts |
| ACIDTEST | A searching, critical examination (4,4) |
| AUDITED | Made a searching examination, by all accounts |
| EXPEDITION | A searching trip |
| PROBED | Made a searching investigation (6) |
| CLOSE | "Warm," in a searching game |
| PROBE | Make a searching investigation (5) |
| STEPFOUR | "Make a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves," in Alcoholics Anonymous |
| APOLLO | A searching space project that went in search of life or...? God? (6) |
| LOOKFORTHECLUES | A searching task for you and Sherlock to do? (4,3,3,5) |
| WHATLIESBENEATH | A searching question for oceanographers to delve into, wouldn't you wonder? (4,4,7) |
| GLARE | Stare with a fixed gaze (5) |
| MOON | A satellite one will gaze vacantly at (4) |
| STARED | Looked with a fixed gaze (6) |
| STAIR | One in flight has a fixed gaze when speaking |
| BASILISK | Mythical reptile with a lethal gaze |
