| MANHOLES | Openings to sewers such as those used by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| CLEAVERS | Heavy knives, especially those used by butchers (8) |
| HIEROGLYPHS | Characters used in pictorial writing such as those used in ancient Egypt (11) |
| SEEDS | Embryonic plants such as those used in Gregor Mendel's experiments that formed the basis of modern genetics or those preserved at Wakehurst Place (5) |
| HERBES | French word for culinary plants such as those used to make bouquet garnis or "fines" mixtures of chopped chervil, chives, parsley and tarragon (6) |
| CGI | Computer graphics such as those used in films (1,1,1) |
| MARTELLO | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| TOWER | Coastal fortification such as those used against the invasion of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars (8,5) |
| PAWNS | From the Latin for "foot soldiers", the most numerous pieces in a game of chess, such as those used in an attack move or formation named after grandmaster Marmaduke Wyvill of Constable Burton Hall (5) |
| GATE | Openings to garden, and the entrance, such as this! (4) |
| ROADCARS | Automobiles for public streets as opposed to those used for racing (4,4) |
| VENTED | Having openings to allow air to pass out (6) |
| HEMS | Edges, to sewers |
| MANHOLE | Street access to sewers (7) |
| NEEDLES | Pine leaves essential to sewers (7) |
| CHESSMEN | Grandmasters, or those used to keep them in check (8) |
| SKIS | Kiss of those used to move on ice |
| PINCENEZ | Glasses for those used to having a nip (5-3) |
| LIVERSALTS | Those used to sea voyages following one existing stomach remedy |
| DOORS | Openings to dressers, offices or rooms, say (5) |
