| BOLE | Rounded dish heard in a tree trunk |
| BOWL | Rounded dish (4) |
| KNUR | Ball used in a game with a trap or "spell"; or, a knot in a tree trunk (4) |
| SCARF | A groove on a sewing machine needle; a cut made in a tree trunk when felling; or, a boa, cravat, muffler, nightingale, shawl, stole or wrap (5) |
| UNDERCUT | The act of chopping below or slashing a price; a notch in a tree trunk to direct its fall; an upward blow; or, the tenderloin/fillet of a sirloin of beef (8) |
| HOLE | What a woodpecker might make in a tree trunk |
| KNAR | Knot or protuberance in a tree trunk or in wood (4) |
| HOLLOW | Gap in a tree trunk; or, a small valley (6) |
| KNURR | A protuberance in a tree trunk or wood (5) |
| RING | Battered, fried slice of onion; or, each one of the concentric zones in a tree trunk's cross section that represent a single year's growth (4) |
| ETCH | Carve letters in a tree trunk |
| GNARL | Twisted knot in a tree trunk |
| STOCK | A tree trunk or main stem; a perennial part of a herbaceous plant; a person's ancestry or line of descent; a fund or store; or, a farm's collective animals, kept for meat or milk (5) |
| BARK | A word for the abrupt cry of a dog; the tannin-rich covering of a tree trunk; a poetic word for a boat; or, fruit-and-nut-topped chocolate broken into jagged pieces |
| SNAG | A wooden peg; a protuberance on a tree trunk/branch; or, a former Scottish word for a woodpecker (4) |
| HEART | Core wood of a tree trunk; the centre of a cabbage or lettuce; or, a bodily organ studied in cardiology (5) |
| STUB | Remains of a tree trunk or a pencil; an accidental strike of one's toe; a counterfoil; or, a horseshoe nail (4) |
| AXIL | From Latin for "armpit", word for the angle between a leaf-stalk and a stem or a branch and a tree's trunk (4) |
| CABER | What is a tree trunk tossed in a Scottish Highland sport? (6) |
| RINGS | Marks in the cross section of a tree trunk (5) |
