| ROW | Line of theatre seats, knitted stitches or identical houses; or, a horizontal rank on a chessboard (3) |
| CASTSOFF | Term meaning sheds skin, rejects, unties/releases boats, secures final rows of knitted stitches or lets loose hunting hounds or hawks (5,3) |
| CARUSO | Old singer in opera houses or a circus one possibly (6,6) |
| ENRICO | Old singer in opera houses or a circus one possibly (6,6) |
| INVESTITURE | Ceremony of conferring honours of rank on a person (11) |
| ROWS | Lines of theatre seats, houses, or knitted stitches (4) |
| ABLESEAMEN | Trained workers of low rank on a merchant ship (4,6) |
| FILE | Any one of a chessboard's eight vertical columns as opposed to its eight horizontal ranks (4) |
| WALE | A welt/whip mark on skin; a row of knitted stitches; a horizontal band of a woven basket; or, a rib in corduroy (4) |
| TERRACE | Word for a balcony in a theatre, a row of connected often identical houses, a patio, a flat Spanish-style rooftop, a raised beach or a step-like landform |
| RAN | A drip or trickle of paint when applied too thickly; a series of performances or unravelled stitches; or, a spell of luck, good or bad (3) |
| GAUGE | Diameter of a wire; number of knitted stitches in one inch of fabric; or, the width of a row of slates (5) |
| BEAM | Section of a plough; part of a roof; or, a horizontal bar for gymnastics (4) |
| LOOPY | Word meaning full of coils, convolutions, picots, stitches or twirls, as in sewing or handwriting; or, describing one full of mental kinks, twists and turns, thus considered a little twisted or round |
| PURL | One of the basic knitting stitches; or, a form of coiled silver or gilt thread used in goldwork (4) |
| LORIMER | Exponent of the Arts and Crafts style of architecture who restored a number of historic houses and castles and designed Ardkinglas House; or, a maker of metal bridle parts (7) |
| ROOST | Word for a sleeping place of a bird or bat; a hen house; or, a group of fowls resting together (5) |
| TIER | One of a series of levels, layers or rows of theatre seats, cakes, skirt ruffles/flounces etc, placed one above the other (4) |
| LEDGER | An account book named for its tendency to "lie" permanently on a desk; or, a horizontal grave slab, whether plain and sombre or fancy/grotesque (6) |
| GUTTER | A shallow trough along the eaves of a house or a channel at the side of a street to carry off rainwater |
