| HIATAL | Having a gap |
| SPACED | Having a gap year off, Kevin, say, died (6) |
| ARC | From Latin for "bow", thus reflecting a curved shape, a word for a segment of a circle; or, a luminous discharge of electricity across a gap (3) |
| SMEUSE | A dialect word, combining the Old French for "secret hiding place" and "smoot", meaning a small hole, for a gap in a fence or hedge for the passing of a rabbit or a hare (6) |
| CHEVILLE | French word for a peg of a stringed instrument; or, in a literary sense, a peg-like word, serving to fill a gap (8) |
| SHARD | Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle's elytron or wing case |
| RUELLE | French word for a narrow lane or alley that also refers to a gap between a bed and the side of a bedchamber; or, this room, formerly as the place of reception of elegant French ladies (6) |
| PASS | A route through a gap between a range of mountain (4) |
| COL | A gap between peaks in a mountain range used as a pass |
| STILE | Type of structure (other than a gap, gate or kissing gate) provided by a landowner on a right of way (5) |
| PAGAN | A Northerner finds a gap as a non-believer (5) |
| TEETH | A diastema is a gap between a person's what? (5) |
| INTERVAL | Based on the Latin for "space between ramparts", a word for a break or pause in activity; or, a gap (8) |
| BREACH | An infringement; a quarrel; a gap made in an enemy's fortifications by an attacking army; or, the act of a whale leaping clear of the water (6) |
| ARCED | Jumped a gap, as a spark |
| ELECTRICARC | Result of a current jumping a gap |
| AVOIDANCE | Keeping away from a gap with a twisted cane (9) |
| OCTAVN | A month before I'd left a gap in the paper |
| SPINABIFIDA | A congenital condition in which the meninges of the spinal cord protrude through a gap in the backbone |
| HIATUS | A gap in a hut is necessary for it (6) |
