| SHUTTERING | Empty speech heads speaking for boards of construction companies |
| RANT | Pompous, empty speech (4) |
| VOCAL | See boozer losing head, speaking loudly |
| HACKS | Word for boards for raptors' meat; horses for everyday country treks; journalistic drudges; kicks to shins; mattocks/picks; rough cuts/chopping blows; or, rows of drying bricks (5) |
| HOMELY | Welcoming speech head of economics provided for institute (6) |
| OUIJA | The assent of two foreigners needed for board of media? (5) |
| PALETTE | Grant-holding head for board of artists |
| TRESTLES | Supports for boards (8) |
| DASHERS | Ledges along the top of the boards of a rink |
| ACTOR | He may work on the boards of certain companies (5) |
| SCRAPBOOK | Album for cuttings, printed memorabilia, or making mood boards, of which Pinterest is a virtual version (9) |
| PANELS | Surfaces upon which to paint before the adoption of canvas; oak boards of wainscot or pews; or, wooden pieces forming triptychs (6) |
| DASHER | Plunger in a butter churn; boards of an ice hockey rink; or, one of the reindeer in Clement Clarke Moore's poem A Visit from St . Nicholas (6) |
| PADDLES | The boards of a water wheel (7) |
| EMBARKS | Boards of English brands hoarding billions (7) |
| ENDPAPERS | ____ connect the boards of a hardback book to the first and last pages |
| SLATES | Schoolhouse boards of yore |
| DOME | Mode of construction of a type of vault |
| CLAPPERBRIDGE | Type of construction, peculiar to the UK, consisting of large slabs of stone laid across stone pillars, over water (7,6) |
| TECTONICS | From "builder", the study of the structure of Earth's lithosphere and crustal plates; or, the art or science of construction or architecture (9) |
