| HAFT | Handle of a weapon or tool |
| WIELD | Use (a weapon or tool) |
| PIKESTAFF | Proverbially plain handle of a weapon (9) |
| AXE | Word for a hatchet-like weapon or tool since Anglo-Saxon times, but for a saxophone in jazz or an electric guitar in rock since the 1950s (3) |
| SPEAR | A fizgig; a gavelock for throwing or thrusting; a soldier armed with such a weapon; or, a stem of asparagus, broccoli, grass or okra (5) |
| AIM | To point a weapon or missile at a particular person or object |
| LATHI | A heavy iron-bound club used as a weapon or instrument of punishment (5) |
| GANG | Word for a set of people or things which go together, such as a ship's crew; a group of labourers, sockets or tools; or, a band of children, criminals or delinquents (4) |
| DART | Small pointed missile used as a weapon or in a game |
| PANGA | A large heavy knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation (5) |
| ROLL | A cylinder of gift-wrap or other paper; a strip of cloth or leather with pockets for paintbrushes, pencils, sewing kits or tools; or, a type of brass gilding wheel used in bookbinding (4) |
| PARRY | Avert a weapon or attack / deal skillfully with an awkward question |
| PIKE | A freshwater luce; dialect for a hayfork; a medieval infantry weapon; or, a short word for a turnstile (4) |
| ARMOIRE | Word, originally for a closet of weapons or a cabinet of war, now an antique chifforobe for clothes or an ornate wardrobe of wear (7) |
| CHUCK | A device that holds a workpiece in a lathe or tool in a drill (5) |
| PICK | A pointed probe or tool; a plectrum; or, a portion plucked (4) |
| ROLLS | Buns; furled cylinders of cake, carpet, cloth, newspaper, parchment etc; strips of material with pockets for paintbrushes, pencils or tools; lists of names; trills; or, throws of dice (5) |
| FILTER | To remove or separate (solid particles / impurities) from liquid or gas through a device or tool |
| DEVICE | Word for a desire or intention originally, later a contrivance, drawing, heraldic emblem, motto, peripheral, plan/plot, smartphone or tool (6) |
| ARM | Word meaning "weapon" or "equip with weapons" that is found in the name of an edentate with a panoply or carapace called an osteoderm (3) |
