| PODCASTING | Recording, in a modern context, of a group of whales trying luck at finding smaller fish (10) |
| BAGSI | To lay claim to, in the context of a children's game |
| PREY | Smaller fish, to a shark |
| LESSENING | Getting smaller fish going round city in Germany (9) |
| ERASE | Destroy a recording, in a way |
| TELEPATHY | Minds meeting and recording in a little wood, and still upset about it |
| TAPE | Recording in a video archivist's library |
| DANCESPORT | In the context of Olympic debuts, DS in WDSF stands for this. (10) |
| PODPROGRAM | TV show about a group of whales? |
| EXTRACTION | Desperate for air in context of tooth op (10) |
| ROYALFLUSH | King's embarrassment at finding five in a suit? (5,5) |
| KNICKKNACK | With luck at last carve out talent for ornament (5-5) |
| CRIMEANWAR | Context of 18 and 27 associated with 19 and 23 (7,3) |
| CRIESUNCLE | Succeeds (or fails) at finding the names hidden in the starred answers? |
| FATSWALLER | Composer/pianist making his first jazz recordings in 1922 |
| AVOWANCE | From "love", a word in the context of psychology for limerence; or, the condition of being in love generally (8) |
| REMISSION | Medical term referring to a period during which symptoms of a disease are reduced or disappear, often used in the context of chronic illnesses like cancer. (9) |
| PLANCK | German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissio |
| EXNIHILO | Latin phrase meaning 'out of nothing', often used in the context of divine creation (2,6) |
| FLANK | Word, in the context of an animal, body, chessboard, hill, military formation or rugby pitch, for a side (5) |