| TASKBAR | An area or GUI on a computer's desktop for launching or monitoring applications or programs (7) |
| SCANNER | Device for examining, reading or monitoring (7) |
| SCHEMES | Plans, designs, or programs of action to be followed; projects. (7) |
| DABS | Brief applications or gentle touches of concealer, ink, paint, scent etc; brown flatfishes; experts; slang for fingerprints; or, smidgens (4) |
| PAD | Launching or heating |
| ICON | Any one of a series of pictograms displayed on a computer's desktop representing a program, application, function or file (4) |
| SERVER | Computer system or program that manages devices or "clients" on a network; or, a utensil for distributing food (6) |
| PLAN | Scheme or program / detailed method |
| BLASTER | One whose job it is to blow things up with dynamite; a sci-fi laser gun, phaser or zapper; a powerful kick of a ball; a strengthening exercise; or, a sand-wedge, for launching a golf ball (7) |
| DIALECT | A form of a language peculiar to an area or class (7) |
| CLIMATE | Long-term weather conditions in an area or country; or, by extension, the prevailing mood or trend (7) |
| SOLICIT | Seek for, by application or entreaty (7) |
| SLIPWAY | A basic requirement for launching ships (7) |
| EMANATE | Issue Out of This World, a title for launching (7) |
| REAPPLY | To make another application or request (7) |
| ICONS | Graphics on a computer desktop representing programs, applications, shortcuts and files, designed to launch when double clicked (5) |
| HOME | An area or "den" where a player is safe from attack in games; a sanctuary for rescued cats/dogs; the inner table in backgammon; or, one's abode, birth country or family seat (4) |
| ZONE | From "girdle", a word first for each of five belts into which Earth's surface is divided, later an area or district defined by a certain boundary; or, an encircling stripe of different colour (4) |
| DASHBOARD | The fascia of an aircraft, car or boat; or, in computing, a GUI or control panel, similar to said console (9) |
| EPIDEMIC | Widespread occurrence of a contagious disease in an area or population at a certain time (8) |
