| CARTRIDGES | Cases holding things such as bullets/charge/shots, quantities of ink or spools of photographic film (10) |
| BOBBIN | A reel or spool of yarn in a sewing machine or held by a spinning mule's creel; or, in haberdashery, narrow cord or braid used as a trimming (6) |
| BALLISTICS | The science of the motion of projectiles such as bullets is called what? (10) |
| CYLINDERS | Greek word for "rollers", thus barrels, bobbins, columns, drums, reels, spindles or spools, moving or shaped like said curvilinear tumblers (9) |
| ETUIS | Cases holding tiny scissors |
| DRIFTED | Floated off to sleep as bullets wandered off target (7) |
| PODS | Cases holding a plant's seeds (4) |
| BLOB | A dab or spot of ink or paint; a drop or globule generally; or, a score of zero in cricket, also called a duck (4) |
| SPEED | Sensitivity of photographic film to light, measured on a numerical scale such as the ISO system (5) |
| REEL | A roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be shown on a movie projector (4) |
| ANSCO | Brand of photographic film that was one of Kodak's biggest rivals in the 1960s |
| ILFORD | In the 1950s and 1960s the main British commercial rival to Kodak as makers of photographic film (6) |
| BLOT | A stain or spot of ink or paint (4) |
| NEGATIVES | Pieces of photographic film with a reversal of tones (9) |
| WASH | Coat of diluted ink or watercolour applied to paper with a long sweep of a brush; alluvium; dialect for 10 strikes of oysters; or, a quantity of clothes for the laundry (4) |
| KODAK | Company which once sold 90% of photographic film in the US (5) |
| REALS | Whirring calls of grass warblers reminiscent of fishing-line spools of the same name; bobbins; staggers; or, lively Celtic dances traditionally listed on cards at ceilidhs (5) |
| INDIA | Kind of ink or rubber |
| PENS | Sites of ink...or oinks |
| INDIAN | Type of ink or summer (6) |
