| SEAANCHOR | A device such as a heavy bag dragged in the water to retard the drifting of a ship (3,6) |
| PARACHUTE | A device to retard the fall of a person or package from an aircraft (9) |
| OAK | One of the fagaceous arbors forming a quercetum; its leaves, worn as a garland; something made from its wood, such as a heavy outer door to a college at Oxford or Cambridge; or, the brown colour of sa |
| DREAMBOAT | Stunner (for drifting of in?) (9) |
| TRAWLS | Dragged-in-the-sea fish nets |
| LANDS | Comes ashore from the lake by the drifting sand (5) |
| LUG | Schlep, as a heavy bag |
| LUGS | Schleps as a heavy bag |
| DISPENSER | A device, such as a vending machine, that automatically gives out a single item or a measured quantity (9) |
| GENERATOR | A device such as a dynamo (9) |
| DEGRADING | Demeaning to be dragged in, struggling (9) |
| PLUGGEDIN | Dragged in to fix something, being clued-up (7-2) |
| OUTSMARTS | Tricks from Truss to corrupt old woman dragged in (9) |
| SPEAKER | Chief officer of the House of Commons, currently Sir Lindsay Hoyle; or, a short word for a device such as a tweeter or a woofer (7) |
| EMBROILED | Dragged in |
| CLIP | A snippet of video from a film or broadcast; a device such as a hair slide, horseshoe flange or paper fastener; or, a newspaper cutting (4) |
| PUMP | A device such as the vacuum chamber or "pneumatic engine" invented by Robert Boyle with the help of Robert Hooke (4) |
| GRINDER | A swot or dogged worker; one who sharpens scissors; a device such as a coffee/peppermill; or, a molar (7) |
| MOTOR | Word originally for a person who imparted motion, later a device such as the AC induction type developed by Nikola Tesla; or, informally, a car (5) |
| LABEL | Known in French as "etiquette", a device such as an airmail sticker, bookplate, nametape or price tag (5) |
