| BIRDDOGS | Literal or metaphorical trackers |
| STAGERIGHT | Direction of a literal or metaphorical exit |
| SPILLS | Literal or figurative escapes, falls, leaks or pours of beans, blood, guts, milk etc; or, tumbles from horses (6) |
| SLANT | A literal angle, or metaphorical point of view (5) |
| ADVANCE | Real or metaphorical progress; an antonym of retreat or regression (7) |
| GEMS | Real or metaphorical sparklers |
| HATTIP | Gesture of recognition, physical or metaphorical |
| CHASM | Word for a literal or figurative gaping hollow or yawning abyss (5) |
| SUGARY | Word that, in a literal or figurative sense, means candied, cloying, excessively sweet, honeyed, saccharine, sickly or syrupy (6) |
| OLIOS | Literal or figurative stews |
| TRI | Prefix with literal or lateral |
| LIMINIS | Of a threshold, whether literal or figurative |
| COUSIN | Literal or metaphoric relative |
| RUNUP | A literal or figurative approach (3-2) |
| MAYFLY | "One-day insect" that is ephemeral, thus figurative for something short-lived or metaphorical for the brevity of life (6) |
| PLATE | Any one of the flat dishes spun on sticks when performing a real or metaphorical balancing act (5) |
| SPINE | From "thorn, prickle", word for one's real or metaphorical backbone (5) |
| UNDERTOW | Word for the literal or figurative current beneath the surface (8) |
| COOKIES | treats or trackers |
| MBAS | Corp. fast-trackers |
