| CLIPPING | A cutting (8) |
| TEMPLATE | Shape used as a cutting guide in patchwork; or, a preset format for a file or document in computing (8) |
| PERICOPE | From "a cutting-out", a clipping or extract, particularly a passage from the Bible for reading in church (8) |
| SCISSORS | A cutting instrument (8) |
| BLOCKADE | Hair to split required a cutting off (8) |
| GALLIANO | Liqueur drained with a cutting parting shot (8) |
| SECATEUR | Short time with European heads - a cutting experience! (8) |
| SAWTEETH | Notches on a cutting blade |
| CHAPLAIN | Clergyman is a cutting comedian |
| ASAWHOLE | Gap found on a cutting tool generally |
| CHOPCHOP | Quick to make a cutting remark (4,4) |
| DRAGRACE | A cutting address to old cricketer making competitive drive |
| EDGETOOL | European used to lodge a cutting implement (4,4) |
| CHAINSAW | Feature understood to be about a cutting tool |
| PIPING | Lines, strings, swirls etc of cream or icing ornamenting cakes/puddings; fabric-covered cord as a trimming; a cutting of a carnation or a pink; or, a collective system of tubing (6) |
| WAND | Something slender and supple, such as a cutting, osier, sapling, stick, or switch; a baton, caduceus or rod of a conductor, conjurer, diviner, fairy or magician; a mark in archery; or, a "spoolie" for |
| BEZEL | A cutting tool's sloping edge; an upper oblique face of a cut gem; or, a grooved collet in which a jewel is set (5) |
| PLOW | A farm implement with a cutting blade for cutting burrows in the soil and turning it up / cultivate |
| ADZE | A cutting tool with a blade at right angles to the handle that is used for cutting wood (4) |
| SLIP | A cutting, scion or shoot of a plant, thus a baby sole, child, chit, piglet, scrap of paper, young person or other small or immature thing (4) |
