| PALFREY | An old name for a docile horse, often ridden by women |
| UNICYCLE | Vehicle often ridden by clowns in circuses (8) |
| LAPDOG | A usually derogatory term for a docile and dependent person (6) |
| SHOCK | From an old name for a shaggy-coated poodle, a word for a thick mop of hair; or, an abrupt perturbation (5) |
| BINGO | The playing of all seven tiles in a single turn in Scrabble; an old name for brandy; the game housey-housey; or, by extension, a word used as an interjection of success/discovery (5) |
| TURTLE | A tortoise-like marine chelonian named by English sailors; said terrapin's flesh, used for soup; or, an old name for a species of dove, symbolic of devoted or true love (6) |
| BRASSY | A bronze-colour fish; an old name for a two-wood golf club; or, a word generally meaning bronzish, harsh in tone, like a horn, loud or showy (6) |
| SINBIN | Term for a penalty box in ice hockey or rugby; or, an old name for a pupil referral unit in a school (3,3) |
| LAPPET | An old name for the dog collar of a clergyman; or, a jar for conserves, preserves, jellies and the like (6) |
| SHAWLIE | From an item of clothing, an old name for a working-class woman |
| INGLE | An old name for a fire in a fireplace |
| KNAVE | An old name for a jack in a pack of playing cards (5) |
| ABIGAIL | A wife of David in the Bible, an old name for a lady's maid |
| CORNETAPISTON | An old name for a brass instrument similar to a trumpet (6-1-6) |
| DEMONIACAL | A docile man stirred up, influenced by a devil (10) |
| TIERCEMAJOR | An old name for the top three cards in a royal flush, that is, A-K-Q in the same suit* |
| MORSE | Type of code in which letters and numbers are represented by dots and dashes; an old name for a walrus; or, Colin Dexter's inspector character (5) |
| WAGATTHEWA | In Scotland and Northumbria, an old name for a hanging clock with pendulum and weights exposed, and in folklore, a brownie dwelling in the kitchen |
| CASTLE | A fortress of sand, stone or wood; or, an old name for a scacchic rook (6) |
| ASP | Snake with skin compared to clear savoury jelly; a freshwater cyprinid; or, an old name for a trembling poplar (3) |
