| INKJETPRINTER | Office machine using black liquid first (3-3,7) |
| CAN | Word for any vessel for liquid first, now a specific cylindrical tin in which food or drink is preserved (3) |
| TEAR | Drop of mid-afternoon liquid first (4) |
| CONSOMME | Liquid first course (8) |
| VAC | Cleaning machine using suction (informal) |
| PRINTER | Computing machine using ink |
| ENGINE | Machine using one form of bone mineral content (8,10,6) |
| COMBUSTION | Machine using one form of bone mineral content (8,10,6) |
| INTERNAL | Machine using one form of bone mineral content (8,10,6) |
| PENGUINS | Writer cryptically using black and white characters (8) |
| BLAKE | Painter using black and red |
| BRAINSTORM | Be creative using black cats and dogs? |
| ERASABLE | ...can be removed using black stuff after a time |
| DOMINOS | Game using black blocks with white dots |
| RENOIR | Painter, French, noted for using black |
| TABULATOR | Data-processing machine, using punched cards, developed by US statistician and businessman Herman Hollerith in the 1880s (9) |
| INKCAP | Mushroom that turns into a black liquid after the spores are shed (3-3) |
| COALTAR | Black liquid derived from bitumen (4,3) |
| BOIL | Black, black liquid swelling (4) |
| OIL | Thick black liquid used as a fuel (3) |
