| BARRIER | Something serving to obstruct passage or to maintain separation (7) |
| CUSHION | A type of hassock, pillow or squab; or, something serving to deaden a blow of some kind (7) |
| SHIELD | An aspis, buckler, heater or targe; an escutcheon or trophy shaped like the third example; a French ecu; or, something serving to protect, such as a chelonian's carapace (6) |
| REMEMBRANCE | Something serving to bear in mind (11) |
| EXCERPT | A passage or quotation taken or selected from a book or document. (7) |
| HEADING | Title of a chapter, page or paragraph; horizontal passage or drift into a mine; or, a curtain top (7) |
| SECTION | Sharing its root, "to cut", with the name given to any segmented arthropod, word for a chapter, division, passage or other portion of a whole (7) |
| TRANSIT | Passage or movement of goods or through a place (7) |
| SUBWAYS | Underground passages or tunnels enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway (7) |
| CHANNEL | Means of passage or communication (7) |
| DEADEND | Closed-off passage or road (4,3) |
| MAKEWAY | Clear a passage or path, relinquish a position (for someone) (4,3) |
| NARROWS | Constricted channels, passages or straits of water (7) |
| ARCHWAY | Vaulted passage or entrance |
| RUNNERS | Carpets designed for long hallways, passages or stairs |
| SPONSON | Word for a projection on a boat or a subsidiary wing on a seaplane serving to aid its stability; or, a type of gun platform on a warship (7) |
| FOGHORN | Word for a booming noisemaker serving to warn sailors/ships in brume, fret, haar or mist; or, a loud bellowing voice, evocative of such a klaxon (7) |
| TENDRIL | Threadlike part of a climbing plant serving to support it by clinging to or coiling around an object |
| MORDANT | Caustic, corrosive - also means serving to fix a dye (7) |
| MIRRORS | Smoke and ____ , misleading information serving to obscure the truth of a situation (7) |
