| FLINDERS | A dialect word for butterflies, fragments, shivers or splinters (8) |
| SPICULE | From "ear of grain", word for a needlelike particle, process or splinter of coral, crystal, ice, osseous tissue, sea sponge, silica or solar plasma (7) |
| CORSET | Stays in sect or splinter group (6) |
| PIKELETS | A dialect word for 'crumpets', thinner and freeform in shape (8) |
| HOLT | Term for a fortress/keep originally, later a dialect word for a grasp or grip; an otter's riverbank couch, den or lair; a refuge; or, from "twig", a copse, orchard, wood or wooded hill (4) |
| SMEUSE | A dialect word, combining the Old French for "secret hiding place" and "smoot", meaning a small hole, for a gap in a fence or hedge for the passing of a rabbit or a hare (6) |
| THIBLE | First woman to fly in a free-floating hot-air balloon; or, a dialect word for a stick for stirring broth or porridge (6) |
| INGLE | From Scottish Gaelic for "light, fire" and Irish for "live ember", a dialect word for a fire, fireplace, flame or hearth (5) |
| BOURN | A dialect word for a seasonally flooded chalk bed or stream (5) |
| SCRUMPY | From a dialect word for a small or withered apple, cider traditionally brewed in the West Country (7) |
| STOUPS | Holy water fonts near main doors of churches; or, a dialect word for beakers, buckets, flagons or posts (6) |
| PIKELET | A dialect word for a crumpet (7) |
| SNUZZLE | A dialect word combining a caress with the nose, a sleepy nestle and a cuddle to mean a snuffle, sniff, grub or snouty root around (7) |
| DIAL | A dialect word for 'countenance' (4) |
| DAPS | A dialect word for plimsolls (4) |
| ALE | A dialect word for drink (3) |
| MATABELE | A Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu. |
| YINGLISH | A dialect of English spoken especially by Jewish immigrants to New York (8) |
| LEAVESBE | Doesn't change a dialect version of "foliage is" (6,2) |
| TWEEZERS | Tool for plucking eyebrows or pulling splinters |
