| BLINDSPOTS | Parts of the retina with no rods or cones |
| BLINDSPOT | Small area of the retina with no vision (5,4) |
| HARDLINE | Simple tackle with no rod/reel (8) |
| FOVEA | Shallow pit of the retina, with high visual acuity |
| MACULA | Part of the retina |
| VERNAL | Landrovers have no rods - it is all to do with spring (6) |
| DONORS | No rods in disarray, nor in DOS providers (6) |
| INERTIA | One reattached retina with a tendency to remain unchanged (7) |
| BARS | Oblong blocks, ingots, rods or strips of chocolate, gold, iron, soap or other solid substance; bands of colour; counters in pubs; or, from "weight", units of pressure (4) |
| SPRUCE | A conifer such as the species with powdery silvery-blue or grey-green needles; its timber; or, beer brewed from said tree's twigs or cones (6) |
| POKE | A bonnet's brim; a bag, pocket or pouch; a jab; a keen end of a stick; a Facebook nudge/digital elbow; a Scots cornet of ice cream or cone of chips; or, a Hawaiian bowl of goodness (4) |
| BUNDLE | A bound collection of something, such as the fasces, rods or sticks from which the term fascism derives (6) |
| SCEPTRES | Ornamental rods or wands carried in the hand as symbols of authority (8) |
| MYOPIC | A defect of the eye that causes light to focus in front of the retina (6) |
| RODS | Partners of reels or cones |
| MACULAR | ___ degeneration, condition affecting the centre of the retina (7) |
| SPINDLES | Rods or sticks with a notch in the top, used to draw out natural fibres for spinning into thread (8) |
| HEDGES | Word for rods or wands of office that came to mean brinks, extreme edges, grassy borders, limits, margins or spaces within boundaries (6) |
| STAFFS | Rods or the county in which Stoke-On-Trent lies (in short) (6) |
| MACULALUTEA | Area of the retina near the optic disk that provides central vision (6,5) |
