| HAZEL | An often coppiced tree with withies used for fencing or hurdles and cobnuts for praline or nocello (5) |
| OSIERS | Willow trees with withies used to make fence panels, hurdles or baskets (6) |
| SWORDS | Steels for fencing or brandished in battle dances or pyrrhics; snouts of billfish or marlin; or, a tarot suit (6) |
| STRIP | Sequence of cartoons or pictures often accompanied by fumetti; a playing area for fencing; or, a footballer's kit with club colours (5) |
| HAZELNUTS | Filbert-like kernels used for pralines, chocolate spread, biscuits, pan-fried scallops... (9) |
| LEONIDAS | Belgian-based chocolatier, famous for pralines (8) |
| CENTRE | Praline or caramel filling in a chocolate; or, a player position in netball (6) |
| BONBON | Ganache-, caramel-, praline- or fruit puree-filled truffle-like French confection made by a chocolatier (6) |
| WATTLE | Stakes interwoven with twigs or branchlets to form fences or hurdles; a comb-like caruncle of a cockerel or turkey; or, an Australian acacia (6) |
| BOUT | A stint of strenuous exercise or overindulgence, for example; a contest or match in boxing, fencing or wrestling; a curve in the side of a violin; or, an attack of illness, such as flu (4) |
| STICKS | Quills of cinnamon bark; bows for fiddles; supports for candles; or, hurdles in steeplechasing (6) |
| STOOLS | Coppiced tree stumps - for simple seats? (6) |
| LATH | Narrow, thin strip of wood used to make lattice fencing, or as backing for plaster (4) |
| BARBED | Description of a type of clothes snagging wire used for agricultural fencing or in warfare as a deterrent (6) |
| OSIER | Willow with flexible withies used in basketry (5) |
| TRUG | Sussex -; oblong basket of coppiced sweet chestnut and willow for carrying garden flowers, fruit and vegetables (4) |
| FLIGHT | Distance covered by an arrow; the tail of a dart; a series of steps or hurdles; or, a flock of swallows (6) |
| AFORTIORI | Castle with excellent fencing, or one with better grounds |
| HORSECHESTNUT | Note thrushes flying around crown of coppiced tree (5,8) |
| SPLITS | Longitudinal rives; partings of the ways; shares of loot/money; schisms; cream-filled bananas/buns; straddles with legs perpendicular to one's body; or, osiers/withies for basketry (6) |
