| STICKYENDS | Violent deaths in ships - indicate approval with "Yes" option (6,4) |
| TICKLEPINK | Please show approval with record held by associate (6,4) |
| GIVETHENOD | Indicate approval (4,3,3) |
| JACOBITE | One in rising company following German approval with sharpness (8) |
| AULAIT | White said to indicate approval in Spain, we hear |
| BETOKEN | Indicate approval cutting wager with two bridge players (7) |
| FOLEY | Which Aboriginal land activist, born in 1950 in Grafton, was an advisor to the Muirhead royal commission on Aboriginal deaths in custody? (5) |
| NORTH | Drama ends in disaster and violent death for card player |
| NOD | Gesture of approval with head (3) |
| TESTAMENT | Trial gets word of approval with initial appearance of this legal document (9) |
| ENDORSED | Declared approval with a signature (8) |
| DOOKS | Achieve approval with small fists (5) |
| NODDED | Indicated approval with a gesture of the head (6) |
| GETTHENOD | How to receive approval with no say-so? (3,3,3) |
| SHAMROCK | Hams up credit approval with emblematic growth (8) |
| TICKS | They indicate approval of bedding covers (5) |
| APPLAUD | Indicate approval of a Parish Priest and Archbishop |
| NODDY | Indicate approval, having cleaned out dirty seabird |
| NODOUBT | Indicate approval and love, but unsettled, certainly (2,5) |
| NCRB | Agency that reported Punjab had the highest drug overdose deaths in India in 2023.(abbrv) (4) |
