| JOIST | Is put in a whit to support the floorboards (5) |
| CASED | In with a tonic, a sedative is put in a box (5) |
| CREAK | Squeaky grating sound, the ... of the floorboards |
| STRAW | Stalks of cereals, thought to be like runners of "fraise" plants; a single stem of grain; a drinking tube; or, a whit (5) |
| BASIC | Without extras, is put in a taxi going east to west (5) |
| AMISS | Is put in a manuscript wrongly (5) |
| REPOT | Regularly reed grass is put in a new container (5) |
| AITCH | Letter? It is put in a church (5) |
| SITUP | Is put in a different position, so don't retire (3,2) |
| CHESS | A floorboard of a pontoon bridge; a game embodied by the goddess Caissa; or, a species of brome-grass, found growing with wheat (5) |
| BILGE | Something under a boat's floorboards? That's nonsense (5) |
| PLANK | Lengths of sawn timber used as floorboards or scaffold platforms (5) |
| CREEK | Brook heard a floorboard, but if you go up it you're in trouble (5) |
| PRYUP | Use a lever on, as a floorboard |
| BOTTLEDWATER | What you might order in a bar - a bubbly beverage perhaps - is put in a glass to drink (7,5) |
| CREAKY | Sounds like the floorboards need changing with credit and a key switched (6) |
| ENDOSCOPY | A medical procedure in which an instrument is put in a body to give a view of its internal parts (9) |
| STAGEFEVER | Sickness cured when the patient is put in a cast (5,5) |
| WARPS | Gets distorted, as a floorboard |
| JUMPINGON | Castigating for testing the floorboards too enthusiastically (7,2) |
