| CASES | As used in exemplary packing (5) |
| NOBLY | Done in exemplary fashion |
| TUBAS | Barrel as used in orchestras (5) |
| SPICE | As used in making pies around Christmas, initially? (5) |
| JELLY | As used in making babies? (5) |
| IRONS | As used in a game of golf (5) |
| ALIAS | False name as used in Dakar (5) |
| AGARS | Thickening agents, as used in ice cream |
| SMITE | Slay, as used in the Bible |
| CLEAT | Traction aid, as used in Any Given Sunday. |
| NOUN | Sister harbouring love for relation in exemplary way (4) |
| PAREXCELLENCE | Pre-eminent - in exemplary fashion (3,10) |
| UTENSIL | Refined figure with endless inclination to lift knife in exemplary way |
| HEXAMETER | Verse written in lines of six metrical feet, as used in classical epics such as The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid (9) |
| SPIT | Term used to define 5 depth of a spade's blade, as used in reference to digging (4) |
| ALPHAANDOMEGA | The first and last - as used in Revelation 1:8 (5,3,5) |
| REEL | Spool; as used in movie theatres in times gone by? |
| CULTUREMEDIA | Substances such as agar gel, as used in Petri dishes |
| ETA | A letter in alphabet as used in Greece |
| PLUM | Damson-like fruit synonymous with "best", "choice" or "pick of the bunch"; or, a dried grape as a substitute for said drupe, as used in a pudding (4) |
