| BRIDGETHEGAP | Serve as a connection |
| SEVER | Cut and separate as a connection word craze |
| SEVERED | Broken off, as a connection |
| ISTHMUS | What acts as a connection is time — hours add up |
| PATTERN | An object such as a swatch or a dressmaker's paper template that serves as a model or a specimen; or, chintz, floral, hound's-tooth, Paisley, tartan, William Morris's Lodden or any other such decorati |
| ENVELOPE | A small sheet of paper folded and gummed to serve as a covering for a letter (8) |
| THOLE | Upright wooden pin, typically one of a pair, set in the gunwale of a boat to serve as a pivot for rowers (5) |
| TAILLIGHT | Mean to get a grip on a misfortune that may serve as a warning (4,5) |
| CHANNEL | Serve as a medium for (a spirit) |
| WARMTHEBENCH | Serve as a substitute on a team |
| ATTENDON | Serve, as a maid would a lady |
| FOREXAMPLE | Expel from a form to serve as a precedent (3,7) |
| TREE | A tall vegetable intended by nature to serve as a penal apparatus |
| RINGABELL | Make a tinkling noise to serve as a reminder? |
| MARK | Record part of common market, using a symbol to serve as a guide (4) |
| CATSPAW | A person used to serve as a tool for another? (4-3) |
| VESTMENT | A short waistcoat intended to serve as a robe (8) |
| TOKEN | It is all right, within a number, to serve as a symbol (5) |
| STARCH | For a celebrity, a drop of Scotch serves as a stiffener (6) |
| EPILOGUE | A section at the end of a book or play that serves as a conclusion to what has happened (8) |
