| TOPIC | Picot may be the subject (5) |
| PATENT | It may be the subject of a search |
| NOUNS | Words that can be the subject or object of a verb (5) |
| SMILE | Seem pleased to be the subject of a graphic exposure? (5) |
| KELCE | Travis who is widely understood to be the subject of Taylor Swift's innuendo-laced song "Wood" (October, 2025) |
| LOOPS | Embroidered eyelets forming picot; or, circuits of electric currents (5) |
| BENJI | Mixed-breed dog who's been the subject of many movies |
| LOOPY | Word meaning full of coils, convolutions, picots, stitches or twirls, as in sewing or handwriting; or, describing one full of mental kinks, twists and turns, thus considered a little twisted or round |
| SLIP | Be the subject of a "fail" video |
| GARBOLOGIST | Refuse to be the subject of his study |
| ERRORS | They are wrong to be the subject of comedy (6) |
| POSEFOR | Be the subject of, as a painting |
| PURL | Warmed spiced wormwood ale; a knitting stitch; a cord of twisted gold or silver wire; an ornamental loop or picot on the edge of a ribbon; an eddy or ripple; or, the babble, bubble, burble, gurgle or |
| ARAL | Sea that's been the subject of restoration projects |
| LOOP | A picot; an aerobatic manoeuvre in which an aircraft describes a circle in the sky; or, a 360-degree turn or inversion on a rollercoaster (4) |
| CUTWORK | Elegant textile artistry in the form of applique, broderie anglaise, embroidery or lace with an ornamental pattern of excised portions, eyelets or picots (7) |
| ATA | Make picots |
| TAT | Make picots, e.g. |
| ISSUE | The point in dispute may be the children (5) |
| ORDER | From the menu, say what may be the system (5) |
