| STELE | An upright stone slab or pillar engraved with an inscription |
| STELA | Upright stone slab or pillar with a commemorative inscription, traditionally used in prehistoric times as a gravestone (5) |
| STELENE | Relating to an upright stone slab or tablet (7) |
| STELAE | Upright stone slabs or tablets (6) |
| ETCHED | To have engraved with an acid or the like is to have done what (6) |
| SIGNETRING | Item of jewellery, often engraved with an initial (6,4) |
| FLAG | An oblong, square or triangle of bunting as a vexillary emblem, ensign, signal or standard; a yellow iris; a bushy tail; or, from the Old Norse for "slice of turf", a flat slab or paving-stone (4) |
| CATERPILLAR | A wormlike lava may provide what is required of an upright stone structure |
| TABLE | Slab for/with an inscription; one of the two halves of a backgammon board; or, a company of people seated for supper or a game (5) |
| POST | Timber stake or pillar; mail; or, a message on an internet forum (4) |
| STELES | Upright stone slabs bearing inscriptions, serving as monuments in the ancient world (6) |
| TABLET | A flat slab or surface, especially one bearing or intended to bear an inscription. (6) |
| OBELISK | A tapering column or pillar of stone set up as a landmark or monument (7) |
| AVALANCHES | With three types: powder, slab or wet, snow masses descending mountains (10) |
| MAHJONGG | Game of Chinese origin, played with tiles, or pais, that are similar in physical description to those used in dominoes but engraved with Chinese symbols and characters and divided into suits and honou |
| AMENGLASS | Drinking-cup engraved with a Jacobite inscription, especially "God save the King" (4,5) |
| BANDEROLE | Scroll with an inscription |
| LETTERBOX | Say: "Don't stop her entering ring or pillar?" (6,3) |
| CAPITAL | Ornamental top of a column or pillar |
| ANTA | Post or pillar in Greek temple |
