| DOCTORAL | Caught between party and test of Ph.D. work (8) |
| THESES | Writings of Ph.D. candidates |
| TYPIFY | Illustrate edges of tapestry, if between party walls (6) |
| WARPED | Twisted campaign between party leader and journalist |
| PRIMP | Dress up the edge between party leaders (5) |
| AZHARALI | Former captain of Pakistan's ODI and Test sides who retired from Test cricket following the completion of the home Test series against England in 2022 |
| DAGUERRE | Louis-Jacques-Mande ___, French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of ph |
| SCULPTOR | Artist who makes 3-D works |
| PONSFORD | Bill Woodfull's Victoria and Test opening partner, Bill ... (8) |
| SYNCOPAL | Caught between nosy criminal and friend without making a sound (8) |
| MANICURE | Work on hand, one caught between stools? (8) |
| MIDGELEY | Corrie lass caught between fiance Daniel Osbourne and scarred Ryan Connor (5,8) |
| CULLODEN | Old caught between slaughter and retreat in battle (8) |
| JOEBURNS | Qld and Test batsman who made his debut for Italy in 2024 (3,5) |
| RODMARSH | 1970s WA and Test keeper who died in 2022 (3,5) |
| INLEAGUE | Collaborating uplifted Irishman possibly caught between Europe and Ulster |
| CLIPCLOP | Sound of horse caught between cuts |
| GRAPHICARTIST | Illustrator using line and tone rather than colour and 3-D work (7,6) |
| ALKALINITY | The amount of base in a solution, often expressed in terms of pH (10) |
| ANDREWHILDITCH | NSW and Test opener and chairman of selectors after Trevor Hohns (6,8) |
