| CHOCK | A block or wedge of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object (5) |
| EGRET | One of a congregation, stand or wedge of yellow-footed little white herons whose plumes or aigrettes ornamented Victorian millinery (5) |
| SKEINS | Flocks, gaggles, Vs or wedges of geese in flight; or, hanks of yarn (6) |
| SEASICK | Nauseous from the rolling of a ship (7) |
| CHOCKS | Wedges to prevent sliding or rolling (6) |
| TAIT | Who introduced many improvements to the railways of Australia, including the sliding-door cars that |
| RETHINK | The sliding in ice venue is deliberate again (7) |
| PAINT | Word for pigment or watercolour; a block or cake of said matter; coloured cosmetics; or, a piebald horse (5) |
| STAMP | A block or die for impressing a date, design, device etc; or, a postage label which evolved from this (5) |
| HACEK | V-shaped caron or wedge used to indicate a fricative trill in Czech (5) |
| SPILL | Thin piece of wood used to light a fire (5) |
| HURTS | Makes like my back after I lift a heavy object or sleep on it funny... or get stabbed! |
| DWANG | Piece of wood used to reinforce joists, posts etc (5) |
| STAVE | Narrow length of wood used to make barrels or pipes |
| BRIAR | Thorny bush or type of wood used to make smoking pipes |
| LEVER | Bar used to move a heavy object |
| SPROCKET | Any one of the cogs or teeth of a chainwheel; the wheel itself; or, in architecture, a piece of wood used to extend a roof over its eaves (8) |
| ARCED | Like a lob or wedge shot |
| DOORS | Sliding or revolving items |
| ABACUS | A block or tablet on the capital of a classical architectural column; or, a frame with beads for counting units, tens, hundreds etc, that is the ancient ancestor of the modern calculator (6) |