| BANDOLEER | Shoulder belt which carries ammunition (one of two spellings) |
| PLUTO | Dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt which lost its status as a planet in 2006 (5) |
| FAS | City in N Morocco (one of two spellings); also a system of nerve stimulation (3) |
| OUSEL | In one of two spellings, an old name for a blackbird, still used in names of other birds |
| VENDOR | Person offering something for sale, one of two spellings (6) |
| AX | One of 2 spellings for this tool used to chop wood (2) |
| NARC | One of two spellings of a DEA agent |
| SWEETBRIER | In one of two spellings, a fragrant wild rose also called eglantine |
| PRIMAEVAL | Relating to the earliest times (longer of two spellings) |
| MICROLIGHT | Small aircraft which carries a maximum of two people (10) |
| GWYN | One of the spellings of the surname of an orange-seller who became a leading actress at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and a mistress of Charles II (4) |
| ISEULT | One of the spellings of the wife of Mark of Cornwall who was in love with the latter's knight, Tristan (6) |
| BANDOLIER | Shoulder belt for ammunition (9) |
| THEGRIMREAPER | Personification of death which carries a scythe (3,4,6) |
| FLYOVER | A structure which carries one road above another (7) |
| PRAHU | One of the spellings of a type of sailing boat originally from Micronesia (5) |
| AZUKI | One of the spellings of a reddishbrown pulse used in stews, salads, desserts and dim sum fillings, regarded as the king of beans in Japan (5) |
| GANESH | One of the spellings of an elephant- headed mouse-riding Hindu god of wisdom, success and prophecy (6) |
| FRAISE | 16th-century neck ruff; one of the spellings of a type of bacon pancake; or, a French word for a strawberry (6) |
| RONTGEN | One of the spellings for a unit of measurement for ionising radiation (7) |