| SPRINGS | Metal elastic devices that returns to its shape (7) |
| GNAREMOOB | *Weapon that returns to its thrower |
| CATAPULT | Simple elastic device for shooting projectiles |
| UNWIELDY | Like an object difficult to move due to its shape, size or weight (8) |
| CHOUX | Pastry whose name, derived from the French for "cabbage", refers to its shape when baked into gougeres, profiteroles and other such puffs (5) |
| BABA | Rum-syrup-soaked sponge cake, soft and pert, whose name, from "old woman", refers to its shape, apparently like a grandmother's pleated skirt (4) |
| MATADOR | Kind of memory that returns to engulf a little fighter (7) |
| ELASTIC | A bungee, cord, fabric, hairband, string, tape etc woven with rubber or Lycra strands, so that it can stretch and return to its original shape (7) |
| RESTORE | To return to its original condition (7) |
| RUSSELL | Town that, in 2023, proposed a return to its original name, Kororareka (7) |
| ELASTIN | Protein in connective tissue which enables the skin to return to its original position after being stretched (7) |
| ELISION | Loss of sound, sound that returns around middle of clip (7) |
| JUGULAR | - vein, any one of four in the neck that return blood to the heart from the head (7) |
| SEAL | Aquatic fish-eating mammal that returns to shore to breed |
| RETRIEVER | Dog, one that returns to gobble one up |
| GRILSE | Young salmon that returns to fresh water (6) |
| TRAM | PSV that returns to trading place (4) |
| NEWMEXICO | Sci-fi series that returns to television this week: "Roswell ___" |
| HOMINGPIGEON | Bird that returns to the loft (6,6) |
| BOOMERANG | Curved stick that returns to you when thrown |
