| DARKENERGY | Perhaps chocolate's the cause of universal expansion? (4,6) |
| BOX | A container for a selection of chocolates; the case of a ship's compass; a numbered pigeonhole for mail; or, a coachman's seat (3) |
| SWEETTALK | Perhaps chocolate rabbit could be flatter |
| RENOIR | Impressionist whose oeuvre of some 6,000 paintings includes The Cup of Chocolate, The Large Bathers and The Umbrellas (6) |
| MOOSE | Chocolate the Beanie Baby, e.g. |
| VANILLA | Used to flavour custard, ice cream, creme brulee, panna cotta, poached pears and white chocolate, the second most expensive spice after saffron (7) |
| RHNEGATIVE | Like the blood type of "universal donors" |
| INFLATE | Use an airline in the process of expansion? |
| BIGBANG | Successful fringe the start of our expansion? (3,4) |
| STRETCHY | Bird with territory ultimately capable of expansion? |
| BABYBOOM | Tiny report of production expansion? (4,4) |
| LOS | Part of an L.A. expansion? |
| SPREADING | Special place in Berkshire in state of expansion? (9) |
| WAISTLINE | Measure of corporate expansion? (9) |
| NEWTON | Formulator of the law of universal gravitation |
| ISAACNEWTON | Formulator of the law of universal gravitation |
| FOUR | In favour of universal inclusion of the quartet (4) |
| ISAAC | First name of the physicist who formulated law of universal gravitation (5) |
| RHODEISLAND | Centre of American expansion? |
| ASIA | Regulars in bars with final space for economic expansion? (4) |
