| SHAKE | Short word for a smoothie-like drink; a jiggle of dice; or, a trill (5) |
| THROW | A cast of dice or a fishing-line; or, a decorative cover for a bed or a sofa (5) |
| SHAKES | Musical trilloes; a short word for smoothie-like drinks; informal term for earthquakes or tremors; or, cracks/fissures in rock or timber (6) |
| DESEED | Ready for a smoothie, say |
| EEL | If caught with a sniggle, it'll give you a jiggle |
| ROLL | An official list of names; a throw of dice; or, a basic pattern of drumming (4) |
| ROLLS | Word for cylinders or furls of something such as fabric, tin foil or wrapping paper; paradiddles on drums; petit pains; throws of dice; or, wads of banknotes (5) |
| CUBES | Traditional shapes of dice or of the colourful three-dimensional puzzles invented by Erno Rubik; or, blocks of perfumed bath salts (5) |
| BONES | Dice or dominoes; bobbins for lace-making; osseous structures collectively forming a skeleton; or, a nickname for a doctor or "pill" (5) |
| NASAL | Like the sound of M or N, like a trill at the end (5) |
| CAST | To contrive or send forth a magical spell; a rigid plaster of Paris shell; the dramatis personae of a drama or play; a throw of dice or anything else; or, a group of bees, crabs or falcons (4) |
| DRAKE | A duck that doesn't quack? Water foul we hear from him with a trill! (5) |
| APPLE | Described in the ancient writings of Roman statesman Cato the Elder, a fruit crushed in a cidery to make the perry-like drink whose connoisseurs are known as pommeliers (5) |
| CUBIC | Like dice or square boxes, for example (5) |
| TAFIA | West Indian rum-like drink made from sugar cane juice or molasses (5) |
| NOTES | Twosome in a trill |
| YODEL | Sing with a trill |
| SLUR | Dialect for thin mud; old word for a gliding throw when cheating with dice; or, a curved symbol indicating a musical phrase is to be played with legato articulation (4) |
| COCOA | Chocolate-like drink |
| PERRY | Cider-like drink |
