| PAREIDOLIA | Phenomenon such as the tendency to see human forms in inanimate objects |
| NORTHERNLIGHTS | Natural phenomenon such as the Blackpool Illuminations! (8,6) |
| APOPHENIA | The human tendency to see meaningful patterns in random groups of information |
| LOPER | See human being half cut, one walking in a certain way (5) |
| DOLLOPS | Lumps requiring surgery in inanimate figures (7) |
| ELGRECO | Spanish Renaissance painter, born in Heraklion, Greece, remembered for his religious works characterised by elongated human forms (2,5) |
| BODIES | human forms |
| FIGURES | Representations of the human form in painting/sculpture; diagrams; or, numbers in accounting (7) |
| TRON | Computer programme, which took human form in the shape of Bruce Boxleitner (4) |
| ORIGINALSIN | In Christian theology, the tendency to evil held to be innate in mankind as the descendants of Adam (8,3) |
| OPTIMISTIC | Displaying the tendency to expect the best and see the best in all things (10) |
| VISCOSITY | Internal friction of a fluid that resists the tendency to flow, measured in units such as the reyn and centipoise (9) |
| DOOMSCROLLING | The tendency to look at Twitter to take in bad news |
| FIELD | In physics, a region in which a particular physical phenomenon such as force, magnetism etc. prevails (5) |
| GEYSER | Natural phenomenon such as Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park (6) |
| OPTIMISM | The tendency to always expect the best (8) |
| EUPHONY | The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation (7) |
| PSI | Phenomenon such as ESP |
| FALLACY | The tendency to mislead (7) |
| AWAKE | "I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm ___": Ernest Hemingway (5) |
