| RAFTERS | Beams that slope from the ridge of a roof to the eaves and serve to support the roof |
| GUTTER | A shallow trough fixed under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater (6) |
| ARRISGUTTER | A V-shaped channel fixed to the eaves of a building (5,6) |
| DIRGE | Death march from the ridge (5) |
| SWALLOWS | Birds flying some 6,000 miles during their annual spring migration from South Africa to Britain before nesting in cowsheds, barns, eaves and stables (8) |
| OVERSETS | Disorders and serves to rearrange it (8) |
| SOLAR | ____ panel, a device put on a roof to convert sunlight into electricity (5) |
| CINGULUM | Anatomical structure resembling a girdle, e.g. the ridge of enamel around the base of an upper incisor tooth (8) |
| EYEBROW | The strip of hair covering the ridge of the eye (7) |
| WALE | A stripe/whip mark on the skin; or, something else raised, such as a band around a woven basket; a corduroy rib; a knitted row; a ridge of a horse's collar; or, a strake of a wooden ship (4) |
| PITPROP | A wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine (7) |
| MARTIN | Bird of the swallow family which likes to build its mud nests in the eaves of buildings and is abundant in Mallorca, where it originally suspended its nests from the roofs of caves (6) |
| FRET | A coastal fog or haar; a heraldic charge representing the meshes of a fishing net; a meander or Greek key pattern; or, one of the ridges across a guitar, lute or viol's fingerboard (4) |
| RAFTER | One to support the roof and run later (6) |
| PIEDMONT | A slope from foot of a mountain to flat land (8) |
| LASERS | Light beams that shoot out of cats' mouths, in a series of "S.N.L." digital shorts |
| NUT | The ridge at the upper end of the fingerboard of a violin (3) |
| RIDE | "Don't fence me in," sang Bing Crosby. "I want to ... to the ridge where the West commences; And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses" |
| SLEEPER | A dormant spy awaiting activation; a beam that holds a rail track in place at the correct gauge; or, an informal word for a sedative (7) |
| GABLE | Triangular end of a building from the eaves to the top (5) |
