| SCANSION | The act or art of analysing the metrical patterns of verse (8) |
| METERS | Rhythmic patterns of verse |
| JUGGLERS | The act or art of legerdemain, prestidigitation or performing tricks with props; or, trickery generally (8) |
| CARVING | The act or art of sculpture in ivory, stone, wood etc; the dendroglyph, figure or form created; the process of cutting up roasted meat at a table; or, a technique of turning in skiing (7) |
| DUELLA | The act or art of one-on-one combat; or, the code of rules governing such an affair of honour (6) |
| THRUST | Sea lavender's cousin growing on wind-smitten cliffs, rocks, ocean-sprayed turf and shores; or, from "grasp, prosperity, success", a word for the act or art of frugality, parsimony or prudence (6) |
| ENGRAVING | The act or art of incising designs on metal, wood and the like in order to print impressions from them (9) |
| POLITICS | Science or art of government; or, Aristotle's treatise on philosophy (8) |
| DISPOSAL | The act or means of getting rid of something (8) |
| ASSAYING | Analysing the composition of metal (8) |
| IGNITION | Word for the act or process of lighting a fire or for activating combustion in an IC engine (8) |
| ALLISION | This word, meaning "the act or an instance of a ship striking a stationary object," spiked after the collapse in March of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge |
| INTRIGUE | The act or an instance of secret plotting, etc. (8) |
| CALCULUS | A method of analysing stone (8) |
| BELLROPE | Sally, analysing the beer poll results (4,4) |
| AUDITION | The act or sense of hearing (8) |
| ADHESION | The act or process of sticking (8) |
| CATSPAWS | Dupes/pawns; offshore swivel knots; breezes forming patterns of ripples of the same name; or, feline feet (4-4) |
| TRAYFULS | Lays turf in patterns of large quantities (8) |
| ENTERTAINMENT | Act or art of providing amusement for people (13) |
