| ETCH | Carve letters in a tree trunk |
| CHISEL | Carve letters in Greek and English one spelled out |
| KNUR | Ball used in a game with a trap or "spell"; or, a knot in a tree trunk (4) |
| SCARF | A groove on a sewing machine needle; a cut made in a tree trunk when felling; or, a boa, cravat, muffler, nightingale, shawl, stole or wrap (5) |
| UNDERCUT | The act of chopping below or slashing a price; a notch in a tree trunk to direct its fall; an upward blow; or, the tenderloin/fillet of a sirloin of beef (8) |
| KNOT | A hard mass in a tree trunk where it intersects with a branch (4) |
| HOLE | What a woodpecker might make in a tree trunk |
| HOLLOW | Gap in a tree trunk; or, a small valley (6) |
| KNURR | A protuberance in a tree trunk or wood (5) |
| KNAR | Knot or protuberance in a tree trunk or in wood (4) |
| RING | Battered, fried slice of onion; or, each one of the concentric zones in a tree trunk's cross section that represent a single year's growth (4) |
| BOLE | Rounded dish heard in a tree trunk |
| GNARL | Twisted knot in a tree trunk |
| ANNULI | Rings, like you might see in a tree trunk |
| ENGRAVE | Carve letters or designs to |
| INTAGLIO | Carve letters or designs into |
| STOCK | A tree trunk or main stem; a perennial part of a herbaceous plant; a person's ancestry or line of descent; a fund or store; or, a farm's collective animals, kept for meat or milk (5) |
| BARK | A word for the abrupt cry of a dog; the tannin-rich covering of a tree trunk; a poetic word for a boat; or, fruit-and-nut-topped chocolate broken into jagged pieces |
| SNAG | A wooden peg; a protuberance on a tree trunk/branch; or, a former Scottish word for a woodpecker (4) |
| CEP | A small edible "penny bun" with a top like a little cake, yet named for being like a tree trunk or a stake (3) |
