| EDGES | Cutting sides of blades; dialect word for escarpments, ridges, cliffs, crests or hillsides; or, in geometry, lines joining vertices of polygons (5) |
| CORONETS | Word for little crowns, garlands or wreaths, hence diadem-like encircling things, such as bejewelled or floral circlets, heraldic supports for crests or cuticular bands around hooves (8) |
| COMBS | Chickens' crests, or barbers' tools |
| KNIFEEDGES | Cut through borders for flat cutting sides (5-5) |
| EDGE | Geometric line segment joining two vertices; dialect for a cliff; or, the sharp cutting side of a blade (4) |
| CHINE | Word, local to Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, for a narrow ravine cut by a stream; an animal's backbone, as a joint for cooking; or, something projecting like said rachis, such as a crest or |
| COPPIN | Dialect for the crest or top of a hill; or, a conical mass of thread on a spindle, possibly tump-shaped (6) |
| TOP | Word for a carrot leaf; a circus tent; a crest or tuft; a lid; a teetotum; a T-shirt; or, the uppermost creamy layer of unhomogenised milk (3) |
| MOTTO | Phrase on a coat of arms or crest; or, a quote prefacing a book or chapter (5) |
| OFFSET | A compensating equivalent; a lateral shoot, mountain spur or side branch of anything; a terrace on a hillside; or, an abrupt bend in a pipe (6) |
| COOMBE | A short hollow or valley on a hillside or coastline, especially in southern England (6) |
| GRANDCANYON | Steep-sided cleft between escarpments carved by the Colorado River in Arizona - and a cultivar of hosta! (5,6) |
| CANYON | Deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs, often with a river flowing through it (6) |
| SCREE | Accumulation of stone and rock at the foot of a cliff or hillside, often forming a sloping heap, and which can be recreated at the edge of rock gardens (5) |
| COXCOMB | A court fool or jester's cap, named for its shape and colour, like a rooster's red crest; or, a dandy, fop or popinjay, who is conceited, foolish and vain (7) |
| SIGNET | What kind of ring displays a crest or coat of arms? (6) |
| BRAE | Scottish word for a hillside or steep bank (4) |
| COOMB | A short valley on a hillside or coastline, especially in Devon (5) |
| ARES | Hundredths of a hectare in clear escarpments |
| SOLINGEN | German city called the 'city of blades' because of its cutlery and surgical instruments industry |
