| TECHNIQUE | Skilled procedure or method |
| SYSTEMS | Procedures or methods |
| ROUTINE | Regular unvaried method, modus operandi or procedure; or, a fixed sequence in a comedy act, dance or other performance (7) |
| RULE | Word for a graduated strip of metal or wood; a code of religious life; a principle of conduct or procedure; or, a standard of estimation (4) |
| SYSTEM | A method; considered principles of procedure or classification |
| TACTIC | Plan, procedure, or expedient for promoting a desired end or result. (6) |
| PROTOCOL | Procedure or system of rules (8) |
| METHOD | A procedure or system |
| GROUNDRULES | Basic principles of procedure or behaviour (6,5) |
| CURE | A process or method of preserving meat or fish such as by smoking or salting (4) |
| MANNER | A way or method; a style of art, literature, thought, writing etc; or, one's bearing or behaviour (6) |
| MOTOROIL | Procedure or boring work that keeps estate operating smoothly? |
| ROUTINES | Set sequences of choreographed dance steps or figure-skating moves; day-to-day unvarying procedures; or, comedians' acts (8) |
| OPS | Name of a Roman goddess of plenty and wealth; or, a short word for swift acts, telephonists, surgical procedures or military manoeuvres of stealth (3) |
| PRACTICES | Activities, procedures or customs (9) |
| USAGES | Customary procedures or applications |
| IKAT | Ancient Indonesian art or method of resist-dyeing a characteristic blurry- or feather-edged pattern into threads before being woven (4) |
| ISM | Suffix with manner or method |
| WAY | Manner or method |
| FORMULA | Set form of words or method (7) |
