| WILCO | What radio expression is an abbreviation of "will comply"? (5) |
| ABBEY | Church making sailor comply? Non-starter |
| HOLYCOW | Why cool expression is an expression of surprise (4,3) |
| ROGER | Two-way radio expression meaning message received and understood (5) |
| IDEST | What i.e. is an abbreviation of (2,3) |
| CURIO | An abbreviation of a word for inquisitiveness that is used to refer to an intriguing, rare or strange knick-knack or article of bric-a-brac (5) |
| MOCAP | ____ is an abbreviation for the turning of actors’ movements into those of video game characters |
| OPERA | From an abbreviation of "work in music", a word for a musical drama (5) |
| ADLIB | Speak or act spontaneously, an abbreviation of the Latin phrase meaning 'according to pleasure' (2,3) |
| TAR | A sailor's nickname that is an abbreviation of a word for waterproof cloth; or, from "tree", a dark piceous distillation of coal or wood (3) |
| PEZ | Candy whose name is an abbreviation of the German word for peppermint |
| ETHER | What radio signals travel through, with "the" |
| TROPE | Figure of speech in which a word or expression is used in a non-literal sense, eg. a metaphor or metonymy (5) |
| IDIOM | Distinctive expression is one that's dim about nothing (5) |
| COMER | First person wearing surprised expression is English actress (5) |
| DECAY | What radio isotopes do |
| ALLAH | Everyone's expression is divine (5) |
| TUTSI | Disapproving expression is over African (5) |
| ROUND | Dour Northern expression is circular (5) |
| TRANS | Across as an abbreviation, as in ___ Atlantic Flight? |
