| RULEOFTHUMB | Principle for general guidance (4,2,5) |
| TRADINGPOST | Grand spot? It might be, for general store |
| STUDSTERKEL | US author and broadcaster whose work The Good War: An Oral History of World War II won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction |
| CANON | The general principle for a member of the clergy (5) |
| LIFO | Accounting principle, for short |
| NETNEUTRALITY | Fairness principle for bandwidth providers |
| AMORAL | A principle for acting with no noted qualities (6) |
| CAUSETROUBLE | Create problem, in principle, for Concern (5,7) |
| FORMULA | Set layout of words showing a principle for success |
| MONISM | One-principle-for-everything theory |
| EPICENE | Impressive and boundless principle for such as teacher, say |
| FIRST | "___, do no harm" (principle for healers) |
| PISTACHIO | Perhaps his topic includes a principle for reduced consumption of nuts (9) |
| PYONGYANG | As capital, bad smell about yen, a principle for the Chinese (9) |
| SPYING | Doctors about to adopt Chinese principle for collection of information |
| YESAND | Two-word principle for expanding on a scene in improv comedy |
| ENNOBLE | Award in principle for Ezra Pound poem discovered in retirement |
| VALUES | Have a high regard for son's moral principles for example (6) |
| SELLOUT | A show or other event for which all tickets have been purchased; a commercial success; or, a betrayal of one's principles for financial gain (4-3) |
| MAXIMS | Guiding principles for the production of machine-guns (6) |
