| TAPER | Long thin wick or spill coated with wax for transferring a flame (5) |
| TAPERS | Wicks coated with wax |
| SPILL | Quantity of upset milk or oil, for example; or, a splinter of wood or twist of paper for transferring a flame to a candle or an open fire (5) |
| SPLINT | Fragment of diamond; another word for a spill for transferring a flame to fireplace or candle; or, a flexible lath used in basketry (6) |
| BEANS | Divulge information or spill the ... (5) |
| TOADY | Yes-man now transferring a forward (5) |
| UPSET | Tip over or spill (5) |
| LADLE | What is a bucketlike container for transferring molten metal (5) |
| IDIOM | Under the weather or spill the beans e.g. |
| ROSIN | Wax for violin bow etc. (5) |
| AWORD | Wax, for instance, might be the catalyst for such advice to your shell-like! (1,4,2,4,3) |
| PAPAL | Head of church's non-variable system for transferring money (5) |
| DECAL | Design on prepared paper for transferring on to glass (5) |
| FERRY | For transferring from bank to bank? (5) |
| LAUNCH | Ceremony for transferring a ship to water, traditionally with the smashing of a bottle of champagne over its bow (6) |
| DEEDS | Legal documents for transferring titles of property, etc. |
| SNASTE | Dialect, almost burnt out of use, for the burnt wick or snuff of a candle (6) |
| METAPHOR | A sometimes mixed trope, literally carrying or transferring a meaning (8) |
| CRAYON | A stick of coloured chalk or wax for drawing (6) |
| STENCIL | Sheet used for tracing or transferring a design |
