| PLUG | Bung for a basin or bath; a seedling grown in a cell of a tray; blurb for a book, film etc; or, a volcanic neck (4) |
| STOP | A bung for a basin; or, a door chock (4) |
| NARRATOR | Word for the voice-over in a cartoon, documentary, film etc; or, a storyteller generally (8) |
| PUFF | Blurb for a smoke (4) |
| DIP | Related to "dive", a word for a plunge; a bath; a quick swim; a hollow; a candle; a sag; a pickpocket; or, sauce in which to dunk crisps/crudites (3) |
| MUNG | Plant raised in an individual cell or segment of a tray ready for potting or planting in the garden (4) |
| STOPPER | Knot at the end of a rope to prevent it from slipping through a narrow gap; or, a bung for a bottle (7) |
| WASHBOWL | A basin or lavabo traditionally on a stand with a ewer and other requisites for bathing one's hands or face (8) |
| TITLE | Name of a book, film etc; a championship; or an appellation (5) |
| STOVE | A cooker or kiln; a hot-air bath; a fire-grate; or, a hothouse for plants (5) |
| BIRDBATH | A basin or trough for birds to bath in (8) |
| CLOCHE | French "bell" with which to cover a seedling, a silver service supper, a specimen or a vintage lady's head (6) |
| TWIST | An unexpected development in a book, film etc. (5) |
| EROTICISM | The quality of a book, film etc provoking sexual feelings (9) |
| REVIEW | Critical appraisal of a book, film etc |
| NUCLEOID | Irregularly-shaped region within the cell of a prokaryote that contains all or most of the genetic m |
| SHOOT | A photographic assignment; a game/pheasant hunt; or, an emerging stem of a seedling (5) |
| SPINE | A book, film, etc that arouses terror, _ -chiller (5) |
| ROO | In Which Kanga and Baby ___ Come to the Forest and Piglet Has a Bath (A.A. Milne chapter) |
| EDGE | Crispy part of a tray of brownies |