| HERRINGBONE | Pattern consisting of columns of parallel lines, with all the lines in one column sloping one way and all the lines in the next column sloping the other (11) |
| SCOTCHSNAP | In music, a pattern consisting of a short note followed by a long one (6,4) |
| OFFRAMP | Sloping one-way road leading off a main highway (3,4) |
| SCOW | One way an animal can be kept afloat (4) |
| ATBAY | One way an animal may be held |
| KERR | "The Snake Has All the Lines" playwright Jean |
| GEOMETRIC | Patterns consisting of shapes and lines (9) |
| SERAC | A type of column of glacial ice, hazardous to mountaineers and skiers (5) |
| DORIC | A kind of column of wood or ice |
| THROW | Toss nearly all the line |
| BARCODE | Machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines (7) |
| TSELIOT | Which poet wrote the lines "In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo"? (1,1,5) |
| WATERLOO | One of the lines in the London Underground (8) |
| THREE | First digit of this puzzle's subject, whose next four digits are the number of rows and then columns of the grid |
| SPREADSHEET | An electronic document with data shown in the rows and columns of a grid (11) |
| BAR | Series of parallel lines and spaces that can be read by an optical scanner, ... code |
| NOBLASES | One column in the periodic table |
| TABKEY | One may be pressed to create one's column at the computer |
| BASALT | Forming the coastal columns of the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, a type of igneous rock that was used to make neolithic ground stone tools (6) |
| GROUP | Any one of the 18 elemental columns of the periodic table (5) |
