| CUTOFF | Channel flowing across the neck of a meander and forming an ox-bow lake; or, a device that stops the flow of an electric current (3-3) |
| BEND | Start of an ox-bow lake (4) |
| WILDFLOWERS | Plants growing naturally and forming an intrinsic part of the ecosystem of woodlands, meadows and country lanes such as bluebells, cowslips, ramsons, wood anemones or violets (4,7) |
| ARCLAMPS | They produce light by current flowing across the gaps between electrodes (3,5) |
| SHUTOFF | Device that stops the flow (4-3) |
| ARAB | A device that stops one backing horse |
| EUPHRATES | River which rises in Turkey, flowing across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris (9) |
| RIP | Stretch of turbulent water caused by one current flowing across another (3) |
| 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) |
| BLOWER | An informal word for a braggart, a speaking tube, a telephone or a whale; or, a device for producing a blast of air, such as a fan (6) |
| LOCK | A tress; a grapple in wrestling; a section of a canal for raising and lowering boats; or, a device opened with a key or combination (4) |
| THROAT | The body's gullet or "red lane"; said passage when sore; one's voice; the opening or fauces of a flower's corolla; or, something narrow, such as the neck of a vase (6) |
| SHUTTER | A louvred or solid wood panel for an external or internal window; or, a device for regulating the opening of a camera's aperture |
| LOCHLOMOND | Celebrated in a folk song and forming part of the region that contains the Great Trossachs Forest, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland by surface area (4,6) |
| VIEWER | A television watcher; an observer of a piece of art; a spectator generally; a colliery superintendent; or, a device for looking at film transparencies (6) |
| METAL | Any of a class of chemical elements usually lustrous ductile solids and good conductors of heat and electricity and forming basic oxides |
| TUBA | From the Latin meaning "trumpet" and forming part of an orchestra, the largest. lowest-pitched instrument in the brass family (4) |
| CUT | Piece of the action, or a shout that stops the action |
| CONWY | Containing Britain's smallest house and forming a gateway to Snowdonia, a market town on the north coast of Wales guarded by a medieval castle (5) |
| EUPHROE | What is the oblong piece of wood from which an awning is suspended by means of lines drawn through it and forming a crowfoot? (7) |
