| PLUG | Seedling grown in a tray; device connecting a flex to a wall socket; a good word; or, a bung for a basin (4) |
| STOPPER | Knot at the end of a rope to prevent it from slipping through a narrow gap; or, a bung for a bottle (7) |
| CHARGER | Connector between a cell phone and a wall socket |
| BONSAI | A dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot. |
| MODEM | Device connecting a computer to a phone line (5) |
| UNPLUG | Remove from socket a French stopper (6) |
| STOP | A bung for a basin; a door chock; a dot as a punctuation mark; or, a set of one or more ranks of organ pipes (4) |
| BAKE | A batch or devil's dozen of 13 loaves or rolls cooked at one time, say; any one of the baps, cobs or pastries made; an all-in-one supper, roasted in a tray; or, a Scottish biscuit or floury bun (4) |
| THEME | Stem of a word; or, a recurrent idea or motif in art or literature (5) |
| BLEND | Portmanteau word; or, a mixture of two or more varieties of tea, coffee or whisky, for example (5) |
| STEM | Base of a word; or, a stalk bearing a leaf, flower, berry, mushroom cap or several bunches of bananas (4) |
| INITIAL | The first letter of a word or a person's name, sometimes forming an acronym or a monogram |
| WIRE | Word for a flex; or, a telegram (4) |
| BARRAGE | Type of gated river dam; an outburst of criticisms, questions or words; or, a tiebreaker bout or fight-off in fencing (7) |
| HUB | A device connecting computers to a network |
| THREE | Number of points for a B or C in Scrabble |
| PITCHER | He has a bung for the jug (7) |
| SPIGOT | Small bung for a cask |
| OUTPOST | Mail in a tray waiting to be sent to remote settlement? (7) |
| TERM | A word or a sentence? |
