| STAGERIGHT | Direction of a literal or metaphorical exit |
| BIRDDOGS | Literal or metaphorical trackers |
| THREEPENCE | Bit of a literal interpretation of a musical based on Kipps? |
| CHASM | Word for a literal or figurative gaping hollow or yawning abyss (5) |
| SUGARY | Word that, in a literal or figurative sense, means candied, cloying, excessively sweet, honeyed, saccharine, sickly or syrupy (6) |
| RUNUP | A literal or figurative approach (3-2) |
| SETTING | A clutch of hen's eggs in a nest; "mise en scene" of a film or stage play; adaptation to music; or, the direction of a current of wind (7) |
| SLANT | A literal angle, or metaphorical point of view (5) |
| OASIS | A green patch or haven in a dry barren desert - whether literal or figurative, it is a welcome sight (5) |
| ADVANCE | Real or metaphorical progress; an antonym of retreat or regression (7) |
| SPILLS | Literal or figurative escapes, falls, leaks or pours of beans, blood, guts, milk etc; or, tumbles from horses (6) |
| LIMINIS | Of a threshold, whether literal or figurative |
| ADDRESS | Formal speech; direction of a letter or an email; or, a unique number that identifies the location of a computer's data (7) |
| PLATE | Any one of the flat dishes spun on sticks when performing a real or metaphorical balancing act (5) |
| HATTIP | Gesture of recognition, physical or metaphorical |
| AZIMUTH | The angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the foot of the vertical circle through a heavenly body. In space, it describes the horizontal direction of a celestial body. |
| MAYFLY | "One-day insect" that is ephemeral, thus figurative for something short-lived or metaphorical for the brevity of life (6) |
| GEMS | Real or metaphorical sparklers |
| OLIOS | Literal or figurative stews |
| TRI | Prefix with literal or lateral |
