| PESTLES | Club-shaped instruments for pounding substances in a mortar |
| PESTLE | Club-shaped instrument for pounding substances in a mortar |
| PESTO | From Italian for "pound, crush", a sauce of basil crushed in a mortar with a similarly named utensil (5) |
| POMANDER | A mixture of aromatic substances in a sachet or orange (8) |
| BRAY | Where a vicar was to pound it in a mortar (4) |
| PESTOS | Italian sauces made by pounding in a mortar |
| ASCOMYCETES | Fungi, such as yeast, penicillium and truffles, in which the spores are formed inside a club-shaped cell |
| AEROSOLS | They dispense substances in a fine spray (8) |
| ACIDS | Substances in a litmus test discussion |
| SQUARE | L- or T-shaped instrument for drawing lines at right angles; or, a carpenter's measure (6) |
| HAMMER | Tool designed for pounding or delivering repeated blows. Varied uses require a multiplicity of designs and weights. Hand versions of this tool consist of a handle and striking head, with the head ofte |
| MNEMONIC | As jogger, sides of mountain come in for pounding |
| MOTHERINGSUNDAY | Rhyme astounding for pounding and occasion for relation? |
| LUTISTS | Players of certain pear-shaped instruments |
| CASTANETS | Try to catch seafood with small shell-shaped instruments (9) |
| ASPERGILLUS | Genus of fungi with chains of spores attached like bristles to a club-shaped stalk (11) |
| ESPERGILLUS | Genus of fungi having chains of spores attached to a club-shaped stalk (11) |
| CLAVATE | Club-shaped, as of an insect's antenna or the stigma of a flower (7) |
| POUND | Weight one will deal with in a mortar (5) |
| TAXIHAMMER | Tool for pounding out dents from rough urban traffic? |
