| PREQUEL | Back-formation, to wordsmiths or producers |
| PANGRAMMATISTS | Meaning "all letters", a term for wordsmiths or logologists who twist all 26 graphemes of the alphabet into single sentences or verses (14) |
| DUOPOLY | Situation in which control of commodity in a market is vested in just two suppliers or producers (7) |
| HORACE | Just some wordsmith, or a celebrated poet? |
| GRID | A back-formation of a word for a metal cooking frame, used to describe a lattice, mesh or network of intersecting horizontal/vertical lines; or, the face, particularly when lined (4) |
| FORTNIGHT | Period given to RN formation to enter battle (9) |
| DODGES | Odd formation - to force quarter-back tricks? |
| TELEVIEW | Watch the box (back formation) (8) |
| REUNION | Back formation? |
| CLAMBAKE | American picnic meal: back-formation (8) |
| DESIGNER | An architect, couturier, drafter, graphic artist or other creator, maker, originator or producer; or, a plotter (8) |
| MOULD | Jell-O formation, to a Brit |
| TERRANE | Rock formation, to geologists |
| GERMANIUM | Element of Marine formation to stick around (9) |
| LINEOFBATTLE | Naval formation to meet enemy |
| STYMIE | I set my formation to hinder a golfer (6) |
| BASALT | Blast formation to get a form of rock (6) |
| BOOGIE | Dance, I beg, in formation to sustain hollow ostinato |
| RECTANGLE | Get lancer formation to be oblong (9) |
| LINEOUT | Rugby formation to restart play (4,3) |
