| KINGSCOUNSEL | Senior barrister often referred to as a silk |
| GUIGNOL | Marionette dressed as a silk-weaver in France, where his name is synonymous with puppet theatre (7) |
| TEA | Drink often referred to as a 'brew' in the Dales (3) |
| KOALA | Aussie marsupial, often referred to as a 'bear' (5) |
| KNIGHT | Chess piece often referred to as a "horse" |
| CHAT | Twitch-stream address often referred to as a "fourth-person pronoun" |
| KNOLE | Stately home in Kent, inhabited by the Sackvilles for some 400 years and often referred to as a calendar house for its legendary approximation of 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and seven court |
| QUEENSCOUNSEL | Senior barrister, entitled to wear a silk gown (6,7) |
| UTILITY | Vehicle invented in Australia and lovingly referred to as a 'ute' - basically a sedan-sized vehicle with a driver's cab, no rear passenger seat and a flat tray for cargo |
| SMEW | Related to "widgeon" or "small wild duck", a dainty diver commonly referred to as a white nun or a redhead when male or female respectively (4) |
| SILK | It is material that a senior barrister has taken (4) |
| BRUSH | An artist's implement for painting, historically referred to as a pencil; a brief encounter; a fox's tail; or, an emission of electrical sparks (5) |
| NEBULA | Meaning "mist", a giant cloud of dust/gas often where stars are born, thus referred to as a stellar nursery |
| CHIP | It a child has the same characteristics as their father, they are referred to as "a off the old block" (4) |
| AGRION | Genus name, roughly akin to "wild one" or "of the open fields", of a metallic green damselfly, archaically referred to as a demoiselle (6) |
| HORLICKS | A comforting sleepy-time malted milk beverage whose name has entered the English lexicon as slang for what is politely referred to as a blunder, bungle, hash, mess or utter stink (8) |
| NEEP | A swede in Scotland, confusingly also referred to as a turnip! (4) |
| EMOTICON | Graphical symbol often loosely referred to as a smiley |
| CICADA | Insect often mistakenly referred to as a locust |
| GLOCKENSPIEL | Instrument often erroneously referred to as a xylophone (12) |
