| NAILBITING | Exciting having lining a bit crooked (4-6) |
| CLIFFHANGER | It's tense and exciting having one suspended on rockface (11) |
| AWRY | Being an outlaw, Ryan went a bit crooked (4) |
| BENT | The grass was a bit crooked (4) |
| LAG | Word for a stave of a barrel; a lath or strip; a wooden lining; a covering for a boiler/pipe; a delay; or, a convict (3) |
| BAPTISMAL | Like an initiation, with lamps a bit crooked (9) |
| HELLBENT | Determined this awful place was a bit crooked |
| BORDER | Herbaceous strip of flowers and shrubs lining a garden path, wall or lawn; ornamental pattern around a plate or printed page; or, a decorative trimming or passementerie (6) |
| EYELET | A metal ring for lining a small hole (6) |
| PELT | Hamster or guinea pig? Many found lining a fur coat (4) |
| HOLLYHOCK | Cottage garden flower Alcea, often lining a path or forming a border with alchemilla, aquilegia, delphinium, foxglove, honeysuckle, lupin, rose and other perennials (9) |
| EYELETS | Fasteners consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole for the attachment of cords. (7) |
| OUT | What you are after lining a shot to shortstop |
| GROMMET | Metal ring for lining a small hole (7) |
| ELM | One of many lining a street, commonly |
| GAR | Lining a river to catch fish |
| TEATOWEL | Cloth for drying dishes, lining a tray or covering proving dough (3,5) |
| BRIGHTSIDE | Silver lining (6,4) |
| EPITHELIUM | Tissue which is a lining for various body parts |
| BONESHAKER | In the process of lining brakes he designed for a bike |