| BOLTS | Rolls of cloth or wallpaper, anchors driven into rocks for securing climber's ropes; or, arrows for crossbows (5) |
| BOLT | Old English word for an arrow, especially one shot from a crossbow; jagged flash of lightning; or, a roll of cloth or wallpaper (4) |
| PITON | Iron peg driven into rock or ice to support a mountaineer on a rope (5) |
| PIECE | A coin; a chessman other than a pawn; a musical composition; or, a quantity of cloth or wallpaper (5) |
| SWATCH | Sample of cloth or wallpaper (6) |
| NUTSANDBOLTS | Practical details about acorns and rolls of cloth (4,3,5) |
| COLOURWAY | Word, evocative of a rainbow-hued avenue, for any one of a kaleidoscopic range or scheme of palette or pattern combinations in which a particular version of a fabric, garment design, upholstery or wal |
| REEDS | Windlestraws of water grasses; or, arrows, musical pipes, pens or other things made from such stems (5) |
| EYELETS | Peepholes; apertures for the passage of cords, laces, ropes or tapes in corsets, sails, shoes or waistcoats; rings reinforcing these; or, perforations bound with stitching in openwork (7) |
| PEGS | Small stakes for securing tent ropes; or, clips for hanging washing on clotheslines (4) |
| SHROUDS | "Corpsewear" chic in the style of cloaks, dresses, veils or wraps; or, a mast's supporting ropes or straps (7) |
| PASTE | Clayey mixture used to make true or "hard" porcelain or the later "soft" artificial form without kaolin; glass used for imitation foil-backed gems; or, wallpaper adhesive (5) |
| NOCKS | In archery, the grooves on the fletched ends of arrows for engaging the bowstrings (5) |
| SNUBBERS | Word for those who deliberately ignore, rebuff, shun or give the cold shoulder; devices for stopping ropes; or, simple shock absorbers (8) |
| COLOURWAYS | Word for the schemes of hues or tints in which patterned clothes, fabrics or wallpapers are available (10) |
| SWINGS | Seats suspended by ropes or chains; or, shifts in opinions, moods or voting patterns (6) |
| FREESOLO | Style of climbing with no ropes or other equipment for support (4,4) |
| NOCK | In archery or toxophily, an indentation at the fletched end of an arrow for engaging a bowstring (4) |
| FOSSILS | Remnants of the distant past, as animal outlines etched into rocks |
| SHEAFS | Bundles of corn, paper or arrows (6) |
