| ELCHAPO | Recently in the news, how is Joaquin Guzman better known? (2,5) |
| SINEWS | It is in the news how strengthening they have become (6) |
| RONNIES | Show with fake news how internet so needs overhauling (3,3,7) |
| THETWO | Show with fake news how internet so needs overhauling (3,3,7) |
| SPERRIN | A proposed gold mining project in the ___ Mountains was recently in the news in Ireland. (7) |
| EARDRUM | How is the tympanic membrane better known? (7) |
| THEROCK | Recently named highest grossing actor of 2013, how is Dwayne Johnson better known? (3,4) |
| ELGRECO | How was the artist Domenikos Theotokopoulos better known? (2,5) |
| FLORIDA | South Eastern US state, recently in the path of Hurricane Irma (7) |
| PLASTIC | Synthetic most recently in the small picture (7) |
| CHAGOS | Recently in the news, the UK plans to give Mauritius sovereignty of the ___ Islands in the Indian Ocean (6) |
| MONROE | Recently in the news, the ___ Doctrine of 1823 asserted US hegemony in the Western Hemisphere. (6) |
| YPERITE | Derived from the name of a town in Belgium, by what other name is mustard gas known? (7) |
| SUNKING | By what other name is the French King Louis XIV also known? (3,4) |
| MAUS | Art Spiegelman graphic novel recently in the news (4) |
| TNT | How is the explosive trinitrotoluene better known? (1,1,1) |
| SHINGLES | How is the condition Herpes Zoster better known? (8) |
| DOUBLEVISION | How is the condition Diplopia better known? (6,6) |
| AKSHAYKUMAR | How is the Bollywood actor Rajiv Bhatia better known? (6,5) |
| CECIL | Lion recently in the news |
