| DIAGLYPH | From "carve", an intaglio cut into a gem, metal or stone, as opposed to a cameo, which is in relief (8) |
| SEEDPEARL | Speed transformed nobleman into a gem |
| GROOVE | Shallow corner in bouldering and mountaineering; a track cut into a record for a stylus; or, the rhythm in jazz, funk or soul (6) |
| CAMEO | Engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring) (5) |
| STEP | A simple dance move; the short name for a form of aerobics; or, a foothold cut into a slope of ice by a climber (4) |
| INTAGLIO | Figure or design carved into or beneath the surface of hard metal or stone (8) |
| ETCHINGS | Designs bitten into plates with acid in an intaglio printmaking process (8) |
| INK | Fluid in a fountain pen's reservoir, "dragged up" in the intaglio technique retroussage, ejected by an octopus or staining a typewriter's ribbon (3) |
| GRAVURE | The process of printing from an intaglio plate (7) |
| ETCHING | An intaglio printmaking technique practised by Durer and Burgkmair and mastered by artists including Piranesi and Rembrandt (7) |
| ENGRAVER | Artist or artisan skilled in the intaglio technique of printmaking, involving incising designs on copper plates with a burin or dry-point (8) |
| MORTISE | Slot or recess cut into a piece of wood to receive a tenon (7) |
| ONYX | Compact variety of calcite used as an ornamental stone, as in Helleborus '___ Odyssey' and Hemerocallis 'Velvet ___' (4) |
| STATUETTE | Small representation in metal or stone (9) |
| ETCH | Work on an intaglio |
| SEAL | Cylinder -; any one of a number of stamps carved in intaglio by the ancient Mesopotamians to make impressions on clay tablets (4) |
| GEMSTONE | Sapphire, topaz or other mineral cut into a jewel by a lapidary (8) |
| BENCHMARK | Although it has another meaning now, what originally was a surveyor's mark cut into a permanent mate |
| DIAMOND | Form of almost pure carbon; the hardest naturally-occurring substance which can be cut into a shape |
| EASYA | Teen romcom starring Emma Stone as a student who gets into strife when her lies backfire (4,1) |
