| GRAPPLE | Instrument for holding Greek crab (7) |
| GRASPER | Instrument for holding Greek crab (7) |
| TIBETAN | Container holding Greek letter for someone from Lhasa? (7) |
| EXPIRED | Old flame blushing, holding Greek letter, died |
| APIA | Pacific port with top marks holding Greek symbol |
| SPECULUM | Instrument for holding open a bodily cavity (8) |
| CLAMP | Instrument for holding line inside a permanent military station (5) |
| QUIVERS | From "brisk, nimble", a word for tremulous shakes or shudders; cases for holding archers' potentially fast-flying arrows; or, surfers' collections of boards, for the various waves (7) |
| EVICTED | Expelled for producing a device for holding tea (7) |
| SKEWERS | Long pins for holding meat for those who take an oblique course (7) |
| SCUTTLE | Metal container for holding coal for a domestic fire; or, a small opening in a ship's deck or side (7) |
| SPINDLE | A turntable's central rod for holding a record; a spike used with a distaff for hand-spinning yarn; or, a baluster, chair leg or other piece of wood turned with a lathe (7) |
| INKHORN | Name of a vessel for holding sepia or other chirographic fluid on a desk, thus used as a byword for a learned pedant or fussy writer (7) |
| PITCHER | Large vessel for holding water (7) |
| TRESTLE | Framework for holding a tabletop (7) |
| TIEBACK | Loop for holding open a curtain (7) |
| PILLBOX | A woman's hat for holding capsules (7) |
| TAUNTED | Sarcastically censured Edward for holding parent's sister (7) |
| TENABLE | Fit for holding, like Maggie's job? (7) |
| ROSSINI | Chaplain is sorry for holding composer back (7) |
