| AMELLE | ___ Berrabah, briefly one third of the Sugababes (6) |
| KEISHA | _ Buchanan one of the Sugababes (6) |
| MUTYA | One third of the Sugababes, _ Buena (5) |
| FASTER | Translation of one-third of the Olympic motto |
| OPENLY | Obviously only admitting one third of the people (6) |
| BATHOS | Briefly, one doubting graduate's first descent into triviality |
| NOLINA | Covering around one-third of the UK's terrain, a habitat often with blanket bog (6) |
| DESERT | Roughly one-third of the earth's surface |
| TSHIRT | Top races straddling county briefly (1-5) |
| POMEGRANATE | Because the wife of "king of the underworld" had eaten a single seed in the underworld, she had to remain there one-third of the year and spend the other two-thirds with her mother. From what fruit di |
| BUENA | Mutya _, one of the Sugababes (5) |
| JADEEWEN | She was the last new member of the Sugababes (4,4) |
| RANGE | Maiden name of Heidi Partakis, former member of the Sugababes (5) |
| BUCHANAN | Keisha ___, founding member of the Sugababes, who won The Masked Singer in 2026 (8) |
| EWEN | Last new member of the Sugababes, Jade _ (4) |
| MIMAS | Moon of Saturn discovered in 1789 with crater which is one third of the diameter of the satellite (5) |
| ANDORRA | Principality in the Pyrenees, one-third of the size of London (7) |
| COMPASSPT | Briefly, one is aptly placed in the grid in the answer to each starred clue |
| EGOTIST | Nice and accommodating old German, briefly one's number one fan |
| TRAMMELS | Restraints of public transport around one third of the city (8) |