| TOE | A phalangeal foot digit; the front of a horse's hoof; the tip of a hockey stick's blade; or, a cliff's base (3) |
| FINGER | A phalangeal part of the body, traditionally crossed over another in the hope of ensuring good luck (6) |
| POMMEL | What is the upward projecting part at the front of a horse saddle? (6) |
| SPEARS | Jabs with the stick blade |
| TIGHTFISTED | Grasping digits the FT put about (11) |
| SCAR | A cicatrice; a lasting effect of a traumatic experience; or, a cliff (4) |
| SCALING | Climbing, as a wall or a cliff |
| JUMPINGOFFPLACE | A starting line or a cliff, perhaps |
| TOES | Body parts supported by the lower phalangeal bones |
| HAMMERTOE | Assault Habs coach causing phalangeal distress. (6,3) |
| TRAMP | A long hard hike; a sound of heavy treading or horses' hooves; top of a spade's blade; or, a hobo, such as the one portrayed by Charlie Chaplin (5) |
| FROG | Section of the underside of a horse's hoof; or, a type of amphibian following its metamorphosis from a tadpole (4) |
| SWITCH | Tassel-like tuft on the tip of a cow's tail; a device for opening or closing a circuit; or a whisk for whipping cream or eggs (6) |
| SKATE | Boot with a blade or a disco "volito" with wheels, both sharing their name with a mermaid's purse-born ray (5) |
| CUSPS | The tips of a crescent moon; or, the points formed by the meeting of curves in Gothic tracery (5) |
| KNIFE | An instrument such as a Gurkha's kukri, a chipper's blade or one of the cutlery items stored in a canteen (5) |
| EDGES | Lines along which the vertices of polygons meet; brinks of cliffs or precipices; sharpened sides of blades; or, borders of anything (5) |
| SAW | Cutting tool with a toothed blade; or, a proverb or wise saying (3) |
| FENCER | Swordsman/woman or "blade"; or, a maker of hurdle-like barriers (6) |
| VANE | A flat blade or sail forming part of the wheel of a windmill (4) |
