| REDGROUSE | Used as the emblem of a whisky brand and the magazine described in 1 Down, Scotland's national game bird (3,6) |
| GROUSE | Red -; Galliform of heather moorland used as the emblem of a brand of whisky and the journal British Birds that is Scotland's national game bird (6) |
| IMAGINE | 1971 song which Rolling Stone magazine described as 'an enduring hymn of solace and promise' (7) |
| ROKU | Video-streaming brand, and the Japanese word for "six" |
| GASGIANTS | Planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune with an atmosphere consisting of hydrogen and the element described in 1 Down (3,6) |
| AVOCET | Bird used as the emblem of the RSPB due to its conservation success (6) |
| TOTEM | Object serving as the emblem of a family (5) |
| SILVERFERN | Plant used as the emblem of the All Blacks |
| ENID | Heroine described in one of the romances of the Mabinogion with her husband, the knight Sir Geraint (4) |
| FRANCE | Country described in "One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese" |
| SWASTIKA | Primitive religious symbol officially adopted in 1935 as the emblem of Nazi Germany |
| TOTEMIC | Pertaining to the emblem of a tribe or clan (7) |
| BADGE | The emblem of a tailless nocturnal creature (5) |
| TRIDENT | Three-pronged spear, especially as the emblem of Poseidon (Neptune) or Britannia (7) |
| CROSSE | Long-handled netted stick used in the national game of Canada (6) |
| FLORIN | From "bloom", an old aurous coin of Firenze bearing said city's emblem of a lily or a fleur-de-lis on the obverse (6) |
| CHEVROLET | A car brand and division of the US company General Motors (9) |
| SKAT | Card game that's the national game of Germany |
| MARA | Maasai -; Kenya's national game reserve extending northward from the Serengeti that is witness annually to the world's largest migration (4) |
| SERVICES | The team that topped the medal's tally at the recent National Games. (8) |
