| STEERING | Controlling the direction of a vehicle (8) |
| STEER | Control the direction of a vehicle |
| SETTING | A clutch of hen's eggs in a nest; "mise en scene" of a film or stage play; adaptation to music; or, the direction of a current of wind (7) |
| EASTERLY | One direction of a Christian festival? (8) |
| THROTTLE | Valve controlling the flow of fuel in an engine (8) |
| STOPCOCK | Valve controlling the flow of liquid or gas (8) |
| CAUSEWAY | Be responsible for direction of a raised path |
| POLARITY | Direction of a magnetic field |
| SHUTTERS | Panelled or louvred wooden screens for windows; or, devices in SLR or DSLR cameras controlling the speeds of photographic exposures (8) |
| PENSTOCK | Sluice or gate for controlling the flow of water, originally used in watermills (8) |
| TORTURER | Right temperature in car for one controlling the wheel, historically (8) |
| TERMITES | Mister! There's an alien controlling the little pests (8) |
| IRON | Metal used in the form of filings to demonstrate the direction of a magnetic field (4) |
| EAST | The direction of a star to this part of the world (4) |
| TOWARDS | In the direction of a couple of rooms, say (7) |
| ATACAMA | In the direction of a river, a desert (7) |
| TOAST | Proposal of health in the direction of a saint (5) |
| AZIMUTH | The angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the foot of the vertical circle through a heavenly body. In space, it describes the horizontal direction of a celestial body. |
| PROGRAMS | Those controlling the apps in buggies around mid-afternoon, love golf (8) |
| TAILROPE | Line for controlling the back (4,4) |
