| ALAARAAF | Poe poem influenced by the Koran |
| JETSTREAM | Influenced by the Coriolis effect, fast-flowing air current in the tropopause often affecting the meteorological conditions in the UK (3,6) |
| BAT | Name, thought to be influenced by the Latin for "insect that shuns the light", of a flying mouse-like mammal that navigates the dark by means of ultrasonic echolocation (3) |
| THETEARSOFACLOWN | Smokey Robinson & the Miracles single, influenced by the opera Pagliacci, and one of the few hit singles in which a bassoon is heard |
| SPIRITCATCHER | The ___ ___ (Influenced by the Thunderbird in Pacific Northwest iconography, breathtaking steel sculpture overlooking the waterfront of Barrie, Ontario) |
| INSECT | Described in the books of Jean- Henri Fabre, any one of the more than one million species of arthropods whose development was influenced by the evolution of flowering plants (6) |
| SEA | Influenced by the gravitational pull of the Sun and the Moon, this is a vast thalassic watery saline expanse where bioluminescent algae, corals, jellyfish, krill, plankton and other marine life blooms |
| NOW | Grp. influenced by the 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique" |
| EMO | Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure |
| ROBINSONCRUSOE | 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk |
| PSYCHICAL | Affecting or influenced by the human mind (9) |
| OASIS | Manchester rock group influenced by The Beatles (5) |
| MERCENARY | Influenced by the desire for gain or greed (9) |
| YELLOWS | Turns lurid, perhaps, as broadsheet influenced by The Sun does? |
| GOBYTHEBOARD | Be influenced by the directors and get ignored |
| LAYDOWN | Record song influenced by the Blues? |
| TIDAL | Time on plastic dial is influenced by the moon (5) |
| TIDE | Phenomenon influenced by the moon |
| SOLAR | Also larcenists are influenced by the sun |
| SWAYED | Is influenced by the days we arrange for it (6) |
