| STACKERS | Crossword constructors (like me) who put long words on top of each other, as in this puzzle |
| POD | Group of people who have contact only with each other as in 2020 |
| FLOODWGATE | It may wash out bridges and embankments (as in this puzzle) / Onetime White House scandal |
| SEEME | Dreaded words on top of a returned test |
| STUFFING | Food put inside another food, as in this puzzle's theme answers |
| HEADING | Shaping one's course for the words on top (7) |
| COMPILER | Someone like me who toes the line but's a bit twisted (8) |
| INSETTERS | Well-liked people like me, who introduce extra pieces (9) |
| BONESETTER | Key individual like me, who can help with dislocation? (10) |
| VEG | Shortened root, salad and leafy green edibles, among others, as in five gherkins! (3) |
| ALIGN | Join others, as in a cause |
| SHELFMATE | Product sitting alongside others, as in a supermarket |
| CORAL | Reef material that is created by large numbers of polyps building on top of each other |
| HEAP | A collection of objects laid on top of each other. |
| PILE | Bunch of things on top of each other |
| FARRELL | Surname of father and son who have faced each other as coach of the Irish rugby team and captain of the English rugby team (7) |
| NATION | Kind of commercial pact where two countries agree to treat each other as well as any other (4,8,6) |
| FAVOURED | Kind of commercial pact where two countries agree to treat each other as well as any other (4,8,6) |
| MOST | Kind of commercial pact where two countries agree to treat each other as well as any other (4,8,6) |
| VULGARFRACTIONS | 4 vacant girls wobbling, figures on top of each other (6,9) |
