| UPSNATCH | Once a pressingly urgent solicitation, now any example or legal case; or, a stage in court proceedings (8) |
| ADJOURN | To break off e.g. a meeting or legal case with the intention of resuming it later (7) |
| NAMEMEONE | "Got any examples at all?" |
| ACTIONS | Deeds or legal cases |
| CURIO | Whether an antique musical barrel organ with a peculiar mechanism, a bizarre geological specimen, a butterfly in a glass case or a taxidermised animal in an unusual pose, it is an objet or novelty, na |
| PHASE | A planetary or lunar aspect; a stage in a life cycle, mitosis or one's psychological development; or, a morph or colour change in zoology (5) |
| ETAPE | French word for a day's march, a storehouse, rations issued to troops or a stage of a cycle race (5) |
| HOLE | From "cover, conceal", a word for a cave or hollow originally, now any aperture, breach, burrow, eyelet, gap, perforation, puncture, rent or vent (4) |
| MUFFIN | A plate smaller than a twiffler; a cupcake that bulges over the top of its paper case; or, a flat savoury bun eaten split, toasted and buttered (6) |
| LEVEL | A stage in a video game; a floor of a multistorey building; or, an instrument for testing flatness (5) |
| CUES | Sticks used for snooker and pool; or, a stage manager's signals prompting performers to deliver lines or stagehands to carry out actions such as sound or lighting (4) |
| ODEUM | What is now any hall used for musical or dramatic performances, but for the ancients was a roofed bu |
| PICNIC | Originally a fashionable social event towards which each guest contributed food, now any outdoor excursion with a packed meal (6) |
| STAIR | Part of a flight, a case, or a well |
| RULER | An item found in an everyday school pencil case or a standard geometry set (5) |
| SLIP | Type of petticoat; a pillow case; or, a potter's mixture of clay thinned with water (4) |
| BACKDROP | A painted cloth or curtain at the rear of a stage in a theatre (8) |
| FLOAT | Milk-delivery vehicle; a plasterer's trowel; or, a stage footlight (5) |
| CUE | Snooker player's rod, or a stage prompt (3) |
| PROCURATOR | Presenter of cases, or a corrupt orderly fails badly holding copyright (10,6) |
