| ISNOT | "This __ a drill!" |
| NOT | This is ___ a drill |
| ISHOW | Rob Thomas track, This ___ a Heart Breaks |
| ISFOR | "This ___ a good cause ..." |
| BIT | From Old English for "mouthful", a crumb, morsel or scrap; a bridle's snaffle or other metal mouthpiece; any small coin or piece; an awl for a brace or a drill; or, a brief space of time (3) |
| TAMP | A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.). |
| CHUCK | A device that holds a workpiece in a lathe or tool in a drill (5) |
| AUGER | A plumber's snake; a gimlet, wimble or other boring tool; or, a sea snail in the genus Terebra with a drill bit-like tapering spiral shell (5) |
| HUTS | A lot of a drill sergeant's drill |
| ROW | A spell of sculling; the distance oared; a raucous quarrel; or, a drill of vegetable plants, line of stitches, queue of people, rank of chess squares, tier of seats or other orderly file (3) |
| BORE | Make a hole with a drill |
| OILHOLE | Opening for a lubricant, as in a drill |
| SEED | A drill may be used to sow this |
| TOOL | THIS COULD BE A DRILL |
| LEFTRIGHT | Repeated words in a drill sergeant's marching order, and a hint to how the first and second word, in |
| ADVENTIST | Someone religiously expecting person with a drill to cover this number (9) |
| MARCHINGORDERS | Such a dismissal may be given by a drill-sergeant (8,6) |
| DEATH | TV series where someone is killed with a drill? Must be a big yawn (5,2,5) |
| BOREDTO | TV series where someone is killed with a drill? Must be a big yawn (5,2,5) |
| PRIVATEPRACTICE | What doctors can have and a drill for the lower rank - what a drama (7,8) |
