| SNAILMAIL | Colloquial term for the traditional postal system |
| REDDUSTER | Colloquial term for the flag of the merchant Navy (3,6) |
| PIPS | What has been the colloquial term for the BBC time signal since 1924? (4) |
| STASI | Colloquial term for the security police in the former German Democratic Republic (5) |
| SPUDS | Colloquial term for the subjects of this week's Miscellany! (5) |
| RAKE | Colloquial term for the steering angle of your forks. (4) |
| CAKEHOLE | Colloquial term for the mouth (8) |
| TINPANALLEY | Colloquial term for the world of composers and publishers of popular music, originating in New York (3,3,5) |
| RUSTBELT | Colloquial term for the former steel-producing region of America's Midwest and NE, attributed to Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale (1984) (4,4) |
| UNI | Colloquial term for the campus-based academic home of scholars and often sporting blues (3) |
| MAIL | Word for a sack of letters originally, later for the postal system; or, the post sent, either via ordinary "snail" service or by fast electronic means (4) |
| BEAR | Southeast Asian creature with a characteristic yellowish marking on the chest, its existence is threatened by habitat loss and poaching for the traditional medicine black market; sun ... |
| ARROWHEAD | A tip for the traditional hunter? (9) |
| CHOPSTICKS | Prepare for the traditional log fire and simple piano melody |
| SKEWERS | Stickers for the traditional method of roasting (7) |
| SKEWER | A sticker for the traditional method of roasting (6) |
| EARN | Make something for the traditional tea lady, we hear (4) |
| KOREANFACEMASK | Costume component for the traditional talchum dance performance |
| ZINC | What is a substitute for the traditional lead-tin alloy in organ pipes? (4) |
| SNAIL | Synonymous with the conventional postal system or anything slow-moving, a mollusc with a house in the form of a whorled shell which it carries on its back (5) |
