| NARRATE | Tell made a bolt lifting speed (7) |
| RUFFLED | Shaken as reversible coat made a bolt for it (7) |
| WINGNUT | An avid flying birdwatcher? Made a bolt for it (4,3) |
| ELOPED | How two made a bolt for the union (6) |
| CROSSBOW | They once made a bolt for it (8) |
| THUNDER | Feared by an astraphobe, a sound caused by the rapid expansion of heated air around a bolt of lightning (7) |
| REMNANT | Last piece of cloth at the end of a bolt sold at a reduced price, often used for projects including cushion covers, patchwork, bunting, lavender bags and French memo boards (7) |
| HIDEOUT | Retreat into a place of refuge, used as a bolt-hole (7) |
| LOCKNUT | Safety device on a bolt (7) |
| ELOPING | Pine log used in making a bolt (7) |
| HASPING | Fastening with a hinged metal plate and a bolt |
| LOCKING | Securing with a bolt (7) |
| QUARREL | Argument about a bolt (7) |
| SPANNER | It helps one to do a bolt (7) |
| SCARPER | Damage a bolt |
| KINGPIN | See the most important person making a bolt |
| PEG | Word for a bolt of wood; a leg or a tooth; a key/screw for tuning a musical string; a cricket stump; a piton; a spillikin for scoring in cribbage; a coat hook; or, a turtle harpoon (3) |
| LOCKUP | A jail or roundhouse; an off-site garage, shelter for a motor car, small shop, storage unit etc, secured with a bolt; or, a long-term investment (4-2) |
| NUT | A seed in a hard shell to which the bonce is likened; a ginger biscuit; or, the hexagonal companion of a bolt (3) |
| BUTTERNUT | A goat joins part of a bolt arrangement for a variety of gramma, perhaps |