| CLIPPING | Newspaper cutting; or, another word for pruning (8) |
| CLIPPERS | Fast sailing ships formerly used in the tea trade; shears for pruning; or, devices used by barbers (8) |
| BILLHOOK | William gets eye-catching gadget that's for pruning (8) |
| CAROUSEL | Rotating conveyor belt for luggage at an airport; or, another word for a merry-go-round (8) |
| MACHETES | Broad heavy knives used for cutting or as weapons (8) |
| ECLIPSED | European newspaper cuttings editor's hidden (8) |
| UNIVERSE | The cosmos; human beings collectively; or, another word for population in statistics (8) |
| STAMPEDE | Panicked rush of cattle, horses etc; or, another word for a rodeo (8) |
| TENOTOMY | Surgical cutting or division of a tendon, especially as a remedy for club foot (8) |
| CONCERTI | Compositions needing correction, cutting or adapting (8) |
| POIGNANT | To the point; cutting or piercing (8) |
| INCISORS | A tooth for cutting or gnawing |
| WHITTLER | Person who carves items from wood by cutting or shaving it with a knife (8) |
| LAPIDARY | Relating to the cutting or polishing of gemstones |
| SECATEURS | Another name for pruning shears, used for gardening and floristry (9) |
| CLIP | A snippet of video from a film or broadcast; a device such as a hair slide, horseshoe flange or paper fastener; or, a newspaper cutting (4) |
| HAIL | Descent or cascade of water or snow; a decrease in size or rate; or, another word for autumn (4) |
| PRICKLE | Group of hedgehogs or porcupines; or, another word for a thorn of a rose stem, cactus or thistle, for example (7) |
| CUTTER | A biscuit-dough shaper, hedge trimmer, jigsaw, lawnmower, mason, snips, topiarist or other person/thing for pruning, severing or slicing (6) |
| SHEARS | Handy tool for pruning hedges, for example (6) |
