| QUARK | Particle that comes in six "flavors" -up, down, top, bottom, charm and strange |
| BEER | Drink that comes in six-packs and cases |
| SAREE | Item of clothing that comes in 6 or 9 yards |
| ENTERS | Resent change that comes in (6) |
| ION | Particle that comes with a charge |
| JOYCE | Author who coined "quarks," whose six flavors appear in this puzzle's six groups of circled squares |
| HADRONS | They're composed of quarks (particles whose six flavors appear at the ends of the asterisked entries) |
| CHARM | In particle physics, one of the six flavours of quarks with top, bottom, up, down and strange that, along with leptons, form the basic building blocks of ordinary matter (5) |
| PENTAQUARK | Particle made up of up, up, down, charm, and anti-charm, e.g. |
| TANDOORI | Often red dish with lines on top, bottom in amber and indigo (8) |
| BAGGAGE | It weighs down top lawyer going to and fro between leaders of Belgium, Germany and Estonia |
| CAROM | Goldfinches collectively; or, one of six flavours of quark along with up, down, strange, top and bot |
| BRAKING | Slowing down, top dog in the underwear industry? (7) |
| DILAPIDATED | Shabby upside-down top and old hat worn by a detective |
| SIDEBURN | Part of the face, lip, top, bottom on vase? (8) |
| BOO | GHOST'S SCARE SOUND THAT IS FOUND NINE ADDITIONAL TIMES - WORD SEARCH STYLE: UP, DOWN AND DIAGONALLY - IN THE CIRCLES IN THIS PUZZLE |
| BLEACH | Cleaner in trouble, a char woman comes in (6) |
| AMERCE | It's fine in the morning before a hint of cloud comes in (6) |
| SCRIBE | B cries out and a writer comes in (6) |
| KONAMICODE | Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, in video games |
