| SPOOLING | Loading a reel |
| DIAGONAL | Loading a liquid in a sloping direction |
| TRAILER | A tracker; one who dallies, dawdles or lags; a creeping or rambling plant; a caravan, horse box, open cart, part of a lorry etc, towed by a cab, car or a tractor; a preview of a movie; or, a blank seg |
| ANCHORAGE | A new job, loading a galleon initially, in port (9) |
| PACKINGAPUNCH | Loading a fruit drink with a powerful effect? (7,1,5) |
| BREECH | Opening for loading a gun (6) |
| GREAT | Loading a gun again is wonderful (5) |
| REPEATER | Sapper, favourite after loading a Queen's gun (8) |
| DOCTOR | Who could be in court loading a revolver? (6) |
| HAY | An old word for a hedge or fence; a winding country dance; a weaving or serpentine choreographic figure in such a reel; or, etymologically linked to "fennel", a word for alfalfa, clover, grass etc, cu |
| BOBBIN | A reel or spool of yarn in a sewing machine or held by a spinning mule's creel; or, in haberdashery, narrow cord or braid used as a trimming (6) |
| SWIFT | Word for something rapid, such as a "devil bird", "screech martin", fast-flying moth, carding machine's main cylinder or a reel for winding a skein of wool or other yarn (5) |
| TAPED | Recorded on a reel-to-reel, maybe |
| OSCAR | Representation of a knight atop a reel of film |
| OPENFACE | A reel with a non-revolving spool (4,4) |
| REALISE | Cotton on a reel is in a tangle (7) |
| STRATHSPEY | A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel (10) |
| TOOTH | E.g. a cog on a reel's drive gear (5) |
| SPOOL | Wind on a reel |
| LOOPS | Rings to fix a reel up |
