| ALICIA | The thing's girlfriend |
| RANSOME | Author of the Swallows and Amazons series as well as The Child's Book of the Seasons, The Things in our Garden and The Book of Friendship (7) |
| RICKROLL | Song-based trick wherein the things the singer's "never gonna" do to you describe the theme answers, in order |
| ANGELA | Davis who said "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept" |
| KILL | "The Things You ___" (film nominated in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, which will be held Jan. 23-Feb. 2; entrants were announced yesterday) |
| FREEBIES | The things on the house? |
| WEATHERFORECAST | Follows the news - it's a signal of the things to come! (7,8) |
| FERMENTATION | Uproar at Number 10 with naughty leader - that's one of the things those on the beer were expecting |
| EXIT | "We do on the stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you |
| SEASHELL | One of the things she sells on the shore? It's hard to say! |
| TRAPDOOR | One of the things actors have to go through secretly in role reversal at The Gate? (8) |
| OLDSCORE | One of the things the vindictive person will try to settle? (3,5) |
| RBG | Initials of the person who said "Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you" |
| LIKES | Although the doctor from Liskeard lost his left arm in an accident, he can still do all the things that he finds enjoyable (5) |
| GLASS | One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be? (13,4,2,5) |
| YEAROF | One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be? (13,4,2,5) |
| INTERNATIONAL | One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be? (13,4,2,5) |
| BREAKABLES | Fragile articles ... or a hint to the things named by the circled letters |
| DEBUGGING | Correcting, in a way ... or what would need to be done to remove the things hidden in the answers to starred clues? |
| AROUNDANDAROUND | How the things in the circled letters go |
