| GRUNDYISM | Alluding to a character or question in the Thomas Morton play Speed the Plough, a word for priggishness, primness or prudery (9) |
| GRUNDY | Mrs ___, narrow-minded person who began life as a minor character in Thomas Morton's 1798 play Speed the Plough |
| ARABLE | From the Latin meaning "to plough", a word for land that is used or is suitable for growing crops (6) |
| MIMIME | Alluding to a character in an Austin Powers film, an informal term for a smaller but otherwise identical version of another person (4-2) |
| TILLER | At the plough, a means of steering |
| MRSGRUNDY | Figuratively, a prudishly conventional person who originated in Thomas Morton's 1798 comedy Speed the Plough |
| SOP | A piece of bread dipped/soaked in gravy, sauce or soup; a puddle; a saturation; or, alluding to a drugged cake thrown by a sibyl to appease Cerberus, a word for a concession or bribe, given to placate |
| NOD | A slight bow or dip of the head; a sway of a flower in a breeze; or, alluding to a Genesiac land, a nap (3) |
| REDRAG | Archaic derogatory slang for a person's tongue, especially when wagging or flapping to excess; or, a term, alluding to a matador's bull-goading scarlet muleta, for a source of provocation or infuriati |
| SLIPSHOD | A word for sloshy soggy matter; unappetising food; a loose sandal; a malapropism (in reference to a character in Fielding's Joseph Andrews); a person who commits such Dogberryisms; or, twaddle (8) |
| SERPENTTEETH | Jason finally gets to the place where he finds a treasure he is seeking. He has to complete two tasks. The first task was to plough a field using two fire-breathing bulls and to sow what in the field? |
| DOGEAR | Alluding to a flap-like "lug" of a canine, word for a folded-down corner of a page as a result of wear or from one's purposeful bookmarking (3-3) |
| VANITYFAIR | Alluding to a town selling worthless things in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the world regarded as a place of frivolity, notably in Thackeray's novel of the same name (6,4) |
| JEROBOAM | Word, alluding to a "mighty man of valour" in the Book of 1 Kings, for a double-magnum bottle of wine (8) |
| DIACRITICAL | --- mark, a symbol placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value or is stressed (11) |
| OPERATIONCODE | In computing, a character or set of characters in an instruction that specifies the action that is to be performed |
| COLLAR | From Latin for "neck", a bertha, chevesaile, choker, ring of leather, ruff or vandyke, for example; or, alluding to a grab of such neckband, an arrest (6) |
| BALDRIC | Belt for a sword with a similar name to a character in Blackadder (7) |
| STOPBIT | In asynchronous data transfers one of a pattern of data which indicate the end of a character or of the whole transmission. (4,3) |
| PROBLEM | Puzzle, riddle or question set forth for solution; climber's route or sequence of moves in bouldering; or, a chess composition (7) |
