| LAXEST | Officer carrying bladed tools is most careless (6) |
| CLEAVER | What heavy, broad-bladed tool is used for chopping meat? (7) |
| KIT | Collection of tools is initially kept in trunk |
| RAZORS | Crazy Horse taking edges off bladed tools (6) |
| SHEARS | Bladed tools in various shapes/sizes for topiary, pruning, edging lawns, trimming hedges or pinking cloth (6) |
| CHISEL | Long-bladed tool used by sculptors, stone carvers or carpenters (6) |
| COPPER | Bladed tool cutting hard metal (6) |
| TROWEL | Plasterers flat-bladed tool (6) |
| BOWSAW | Thin-bladed tool for cutting curves |
| HAMMER | What tool is used for driving in nails (6) |
| SCYTHE | What reaping tool is associated with Old Father Time? (6) |
| SHOVEL | What long-handled tool is used for moving earth, snow, gravel? (6) |
| PESTLE | What round-ended tool is used for grinding in a mortar? (6) |
| PLOUGH | Agricultural tool is parking next to Irish lake (6) |
| SPLAYD | Consumer's tool is removed from broken displays (6) |
| PULLEY | A wheel that carries a flexible rope, cord, cable, chain, or belt on its rim. This tool is used singly or in combination to transmit energy and motion. (6) |
| WRENCH | Also called spanner, this tool is usually operated by hand, for tightening bolts and nuts. (6) |
| ADVICE | Warning a tool is wasting energy |
| PAPERKNIVES | Bladed tools used for opening sealed envelopes (5,6) |
| MALTESECROSS | Most careless manoeuvring that was symbolic of Crusades |
