| HARDCOURT | Cut or ground (4,5) |
| BURIN | Also called a graver, this engraving tool has a metal shaft that is cut or ground diagonally downward to form a diamond-shaped point at the tip. (5) |
| MINCEMEAT | Finely chopped beef or lamb; a spiced mixture of brandy-soaked apple, citrus peel, dried fruit and suet as a filling for festive pies; or, anything thoroughly diced or ground (9) |
| MARRYINTO | Join family in tram or ground covering yard |
| VILLAPARK | House and grounds, or ground |
| HARROWING | Heart-rending or ground-breaking (9) |
| RATIONALE | A relation's ground, or grounds (9) |
| WELLS | Excavations to access oil or ground water; springs; or, depressions made in flour to hold eggs or milk (5) |
| ALMOND | Nut-like kernel eaten roasted and smoked as a snack or ground in korma, romesco sauce or cakes containing lemon and polenta (6) |
| ALMONDS | Nut-like seeds of a tree in the genus Prunus that are often sugared for wedding favours or ground to make marzipan fruits or decorations for simnel cakes (7) |
| CHICKPEA | Edible seed or "garbanzo" of a leguminous plant of the same name, used to make hummus or ground into gram flour (8) |
| STALLS | Cowsheds or stables; doorless pews; booths for the sale of goods; or, ground-floor seats in a theatre (6) |
| BULL | Also called the cub, or ground, shark, the ___ shark is blunt-snouted and grows to about 3.5 metres (11.5 feet), or a mature bovine male (4) |
| CANNABIN | Quilled or ground spicy lauraceous bark with a warm aroma redolent of Christmas or festive baking (8) |
| SEED | An embryonic grain, kernel, nut, pip or stone, thus a beginning, first principle or ground, freshly sown (4) |
| TORRID | Dirt or ground can be hot (6) |
| MIDDLE | Before earth or ground |
| UNDER | Ending for wear or ground |
| MAINDOOR | Sprawling domain or ground floor flat (8) |
| CHLOROFORM | Knockout stuff from loch or ground (10) |
