| ATTERCOP | Obsolete or dialect word for spider or ill-natured person (8) |
| SHEDEVIL | A woman who is regarded as cruel, wicked or ill-natured (3-5) |
| COBWEBS | Referencing an old word for "spider", the intricate gossamer or silk nets spun by said arachnid (7) |
| OUTDATED | Obsolete or old-fashioned (8) |
| CROSSPATCH | Angry scrap from ill-natured person (10) |
| EMENDATING | English blokes becoming obsolete - or improving? (10) |
| ARANEOUS | Word, from "spider" or "spider's web", meaning "cobwebby" (8) |
| EATAGE | An old or dialect word for grazing rights or pasturage; or, aftermath, fodder, grass, hay, provender and the like, for browsing cattle or horses (6) |
| BUSS | An archaic or dialect word for a passionate kiss or loud playful smacker; or, a bluff-bowed Dutch boat for herring or mackerel fishing (4) |
| SUNSHINE | Nickname for a sweet-natured person |
| ARACHNID | A spider or scorpion, for instance (8) |
| FLAPJACK | Biscuity bar or chewy cake of rolled oats and golden syrup; a compact for face powder; or, dialect for a pancake (8) |
| ALTEREGO | Peter Parker for Spider-Man: 2 wds. |
| WICK | Old or dialect word for a creek, farm, hamlet or village; or, a cord that supplies fuel to a candle or oil lamp's flame by capillary action (4) |
| SHAW | An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| POUFFE | Scots or dialect word for blows, gusts, mild explosions, wafts or whiffs of air, dust, gunpowder, smoke or the like; shots; or, hairdressers' powder pads (6) |
| VERANDAH | This covers over and a haven for spiders inside (8) |
| SPINNERS | Threadmakers; spiders or their silk-producing organs; whirling bookstands; "doctors" who weave favourable propaganda/publicity; or, revolving lures for catching trout (8) |
| BASEMENT | Place for spiders, pipes, and old yearbooks |
| YON | Old-fashioned or dialect word for that or those (3) |
