| COUNTRYDANCE | Terpsichorean folk routine such as Corn Rigs, Gathering Peascods, Old Mole, Rufty Tufty, or any one of those collected by Cecil Sharp (7,5) |
| BUSHEL | Old unit of volume used for measuring agricultural produce such as corn or beans (6) |
| SWORDDANCE | A rapier- or steel-brandishing terpsichorean mock battle, such as the scabbard-crossing Highland Ghillie Callum or any one of those in the hilt-and-point manner (5,5) |
| EAR | The seed-bearing spike of a cereal plant, such as corn (3) |
| BUSHELS | Units of volume used for measuring agricultural produce such as corn (7) |
| EARS | The seed-bearing spikes of cereal plants, such as corn (4) |
| CHENILLE | A thick, soft, tufty silk or worsted velvet cord or yarn, used in embroidery, or to make fabric or trimmings (8) |
| DANCE | Sequence of choreographed or freestyle terpsichorean movements; or, a social gathering held for such (5) |
| CLUMPS | Word describing lumbering boots or inelegant shoes, a heavy-footed clumsy walker, cloggy mascara or a tufty, tussocky or thickety plant or thing (6) |
| BALLROOM | Area, for example, in a large country house or manor for terpsichorean movements such as the waltz, foxtrot, tango and quickstep (8) |
| DANSE | Terpsichorean sequence such as that in the allegorical "macabre" style, symbolising universality of death (5) |
| SHELLER | Used to extract something, as corn or clams |
| SQUIRRELCAGE | Term for a literal ceaselessly rotating coop, treadmill or wheel for a busy dray-building tufty-tailed scurrying tree rodent, thus a figuratively dizzying, futile, monotonous, purposeless or repetitiv |
| CIRRI | Layered, patchy or tufty clouds at high altitudes, also called mare's tails (5) |
| CENSOR | Although seen as corn in the South-East, he has the right to delete some of it |
| DREY | Squirrel's arboreal abode, Nutkin's nest, gnawer's twiggy high-rise or Tufty Fluffytail's leafy penthouse (4) |
| CAT | One o' ___ (old ball game) |
| IKNOW | - - Why the Caged Bird Sings; one o Maya Angelou's autobiographies (1,4) |
| DOWNTIME | The one o'clock from Newry perhaps constitutes a lack of productivity (8) |
| BREAKCOVER | Appear in the open when lunchtime's finished around one o'clock (5,5) |
