| HAMMER | Hand tool for driving nails, beating metal or breaking toffee; auctioneer's gavel; or, a striking mechanism in a clock or piano (6) |
| TEEOFF | Get started, breaking toffee (3,3) |
| BAPNHAER | Tool used for beating metal |
| ROUTING | Beating metal in coarse offcut (7) |
| ICEPICK | A prong similar to a bradawl for sculpting a frozen block or breaking it into cubes for cocktails/drinks; or, a mountaineer's piolet-like tool (3,4) |
| HARROW | Agricultural implement for pulverising, aerating or breaking up soil; or, a public school for boys in north-west London (6) |
| BRADAWL | Pointed hand tool for making holes in wood, leather etc. for screws or nails (7) |
| CHISEL | Hand tool for working wood consisting of a flat steel blade with a cutting edge (6) |
| DRILL | Tool for driving in screws |
| NAILGUN | Power tool for driving tacks into wood, eg (4,3) |
| ROCK | Any one of the boulders or crags one is said to be on when in a state of ruin, destitution or breaking down (4) |
| PICK | Choose a hand tool for breaking up soil |
| ADZE | Hand tool for shaping wood. One of the earliest tools, it was widely distributed in Stone Age cultures in the form of a handheld stone chipped to form a blade. (4) |
| TOEING | Driving nails obliquely |
| RAISING | Setting up or breaking up a rising |
| SWITCH | Control for making or breaking connections (6) |
| BUST | The making or breaking of a sculptor? (4) |
| SWITCHBOARD | Apparatus for making or breaking an electric current (11) |
| TROWEL | Hand tool for plasterers or gardeners (6) |
| SCYTHE | Old hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops, now only used in the UK by heritage and rural craftspeople (6) |
