diff --git a/src/textual/css/query.py b/src/textual/css/query.py
index ce966d6b18..4326bb7665 100644
--- a/src/textual/css/query.py
+++ b/src/textual/css/query.py
@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ class WrongType(QueryError):
     """Query result was not of the correct type."""
 
 
-QueryType = TypeVar("QueryType", bound="Widget")
+QueryType = TypeVar("QueryType", bound=Widget)
+"""Type variable used to type generic queries."""
+ExpectType = TypeVar("ExpectType", bound=Widget)
+"""Type variable used to further restrict queries."""
 
 
 @rich.repr.auto(angular=True)
@@ -187,10 +190,8 @@ def exclude(self, selector: str) -> DOMQuery[QueryType]:
         """
         return DOMQuery(self.node, exclude=selector, parent=self)
 
-    ExpectType = TypeVar("ExpectType")
-
     @overload
-    def first(self) -> Widget:
+    def first(self) -> QueryType:
         ...
 
     @overload
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ def first(
             raise NoMatches(f"No nodes match {self!r}")
 
     @overload
-    def only_one(self) -> Widget:
+    def only_one(self) -> QueryType:
         ...
 
     @overload
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ def only_one(self, expect_type: type[ExpectType]) -> ExpectType:
 
     def only_one(
         self, expect_type: type[ExpectType] | None = None
-    ) -> Widget | ExpectType:
+    ) -> QueryType | ExpectType:
         """Get the *only* matching node.
 
         Args:
@@ -253,7 +254,9 @@ def only_one(
         _rich_traceback_omit = True
         # Call on first to get the first item. Here we'll use all of the
         # testing and checking it provides.
-        the_one = self.first(expect_type) if expect_type is not None else self.first()
+        the_one: ExpectType | QueryType = (
+            self.first(expect_type) if expect_type is not None else self.first()
+        )
         try:
             # Now see if we can access a subsequent item in the nodes. There
             # should *not* be anything there, so we *should* get an
@@ -268,10 +271,10 @@ def only_one(
             # The IndexError was got, that's a good thing in this case. So
             # we return what we found.
             pass
-        return cast("Widget", the_one)
+        return the_one
 
     @overload
-    def last(self) -> Widget:
+    def last(self) -> QueryType:
         ...
 
     @overload
@@ -304,7 +307,7 @@ def last(
         return last
 
     @overload
-    def results(self) -> Iterator[Widget]:
+    def results(self) -> Iterator[QueryType]:
         ...
 
     @overload
@@ -313,7 +316,7 @@ def results(self, filter_type: type[ExpectType]) -> Iterator[ExpectType]:
 
     def results(
         self, filter_type: type[ExpectType] | None = None
-    ) -> Iterator[Widget | ExpectType]:
+    ) -> Iterator[QueryType | ExpectType]:
         """Get query results, optionally filtered by a given type.
 
         Args: