| BARES | Exposes, as one's teeth or soul |
| SPAT | Finished brushing one's teeth, say |
| CRAMPS | Hinders, as one's style |
| ROSE | Flower clenched in a tango dancer's teeth |
| GAMS | Word for herds, pods or schools of dolphins, porpoises or whales; social visits, originally between whalers at sea; flocks of large sea birds; women's legs; or, in the Scots language, mouths, teeth or |
| SPIRIT | Prevailing atmosphere or mood; or, a person's psyche or soul (6) |
| UNMASKS | Exposes, as a villain's secret identity |
| APPLE | Autumnally bobbed from a bucket of water with one's teeth or placed on a stick and coated in toffee, a pome related to the medlar, pear and quince; or, the wood of said fruit's tree (5) |
| CHATTER | Noise made by a magpie, monkey, shiverer's clacking teeth or one's voice box, when one is babbling, idly talking, magging or tittle-tattling (7) |
| DEBUTNOVEL | Zadie Smith's "White Teeth" or Stephen King's "Carrie," e.g. |
| GNASH | Grind one"s teeth (5) |
| CRACKNEL | Expert regularly unveils something hard to get one’s teeth into |
| AAO | U.S. teeth-straighteners' org. |
| DEBUNKS | Exposes, as a false claim |
| REVEALS | Exposes as the girl Lars is running around with (7) |
| COMB | Detangler with a series of teeth; or, a chicken or cockerel's crest (4) |
| PEGS | Word for pins or bolts of wood, thus wooden legs or teeth; or, spillikins whose final positions on cribbage-boards signify the end of the game, thus metaphorically the end of life (4) |
| PINION | A flight-feather; or, a small cog with teeth or "leaves", as if from a cone (6) |
| EDENTATA | Having no front teeth, or no teeth at all (8) |
| KISS | Hershey's or soul |
