| NEOLOGISMS | With recent examples including chillax, hangry, selfie and staycation, newly-coined words or phrases (10) |
| SOCIALMEDIA | Very well - I start to admit - after medical trips seen in selfies and posts? (6,5) |
| HONOLULU | Most recent example of capital gains for Americans (8) |
| LATEST | Most recent example of a dead saint (6) |
| PIX | Selfies and such, briefly |
| INSTA | App for sharing selfies and shelfies |
| NEOLOGISM | Newly coined word or expression, or a new use of an established one (9) |
| NEOLOGY | Newly-coined word or expression (7) |
| PALINDROME | With examples including "madam", "go dog" and "party trap", a word, phrase or verse that reads the same backwards and forward (10) |
| HEROINE | A woman admired for her brave or courageous deeds; or, with examples including Emma Woodhouse and Fanny Price, a female protagonist (7) |
| VILLAGE | From Latin for "country house, farm" and with fictional examples including Ambridge, Chuffnell Regis, Dibley, Highbury, Nutwood, St Mary Mead and Thrush Green, a rural settlement between a hamlet and |
| ANAGRAMS | Words or phrases, the letters of which can be rearranged into other words or phrases (8) |
| TERRIER | Breed/type of dog with fictional examples including McIntosh in a Jeeves and Wooster story and Snowy in The Adventures of Tintin (7) |
| COOKERYBOOK | With numerous examples including Apicius, The English Huswife, The Forme of Cury, Good Things in England and Larousse Gastronomique, any compendium of recipes and handy culinary tips (7,4) |
| SONG | With examples including In the Bleak Midwinter, Somerset Wassail and John Mason Neale's O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, an aria, chant, hymn, noel, wassail or other such musical composition for choir, chori |
| GLOSSARY | An alphabetical list of words with meanings of words or phrases that are hard to understand (8) |
| VALET | With fictional examples including Jeeves and Passepartout, a gentleman's personal attendant (5) |
| TOWNS | Urban areas with fictional examples including Hardy's Shaston, Seuss's Whoville and Trollope's Barchester (5) |
| NEOLOGIC | Like a recently coined word or phrase |
| PENINSULA | With UK examples including the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, the Lizard in Cornwall and Low Furness in Cumbria, a near-island extending from a mainland (9) |