| TLDR | Short response to a long post |
| STILT | A long post or column, used to support a building above ground level (5) |
| ANS | In short, response to a question |
| ANSWER | Defend ourselves against short response we get right (6) |
| CACHE | Long post about a store |
| RANT | Long post, quite possibly |
| SPARS | Long posts at sea |
| HOE | A tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle. |
| LIFER | Take up a few refills to a long-term guy in a prison (5) |
| HARPOON | A barbed missile attached to a long cord, hurled or fired from a gun (7) |
| SCONES | Thought to derive from early Dutch for "fine bread", baked rounds or quadrants of plain or fruited dough, subject to a long-running debate as to whether said cakes are spread with jam first, or cream |
| MOUSE | An originally corded device named for its resemblance to a long-tailed rodent; or, with "potato", in imitation of "couch potato", a person who spends excessive amounts of time sat at a computer, using |
| CROC | Short word for a freshie or saltie, whose serrated interlocking jaws are likened to a long sprung metal clip (4) |
| DIGAMMA | Appreciate a medal given to a long-retired character |
| DARTFORD | A Kent borough linked to a long-tailed warbler (8) |
| EXTENSIONCORD | Old anxiety to lead to a long cable |
| RAKE | Garden tool consisting of a row of metal or wooden teeth attached to a long handle (4) |
| FLAIL | Threshing tool consisting of a free-swinging metal or wooden bar (swingle or swiple) attached to a long handle (5) |
| LEAD | France's leader due to fly north to a long-running dispute (4) |
| HAMMER | Athletics event in which a metal ball attached to a long handle of flexible wire is hurled (6) |
