| PROBATE | The act or process of officially proving the authenticity and validity of a will. (7) |
| RENEWAL | The extension of the period of a loan of a library book or the validity of a contract, lease, licence, subscription etc (7) |
| ELENCHI | The refutation of a point of view by proving the opposite of its conclusion |
| REFORM | The act or process of improving or correcting an institution, practice, system etc; or, the betterment of a behaviour by giving up a vice (6) |
| MOULAGE | French word for the art or process of modelling, wax-working or, moreover, forensic casting of objects of interest in criminal investigations (7) |
| CARVING | An ancient art or process of etching ebony, incising ivory, modelling marble, sculpting sandstone, trimming turkey or whittling wood; or, the shaped glyphic piece duly chipped, chiselled, cleaved or c |
| UPKEEP | Running costs; or, the act or process of maintaining something in a state of good repair (6) |
| WASTAGE | Action or process of losing or destroying something by using it extravagantly (7) |
| SCEPTIC | One who habitually doubts the authenticity of accepted beliefs (7) |
| LIMITATION | The act or process of bringing or contesting a legal action in court (10) |
| IGNITION | Word for the act or process of lighting a fire or for activating combustion in an IC engine (8) |
| ORIGAMI | The Japanese art or process of paper folding (7) |
| NARRATION | The act or process of telling a story (9) |
| CONSECRATION | The act or process of making holy (12) |
| VARIATION | The act or process of changing (9) |
| ADHESION | The act or process of sticking (8) |
| INLAY | Printed card or booklet attached to the case of a CD, DVD or cassette; or, the technique or process of boulle or marquetry (5) |
| HAGIOGRAPHY | Act or process of chronicling the lives of saints (11) |
| RECOVERY | Act or process of "getting back" one's health, wealth or other thing (8) |
| MINING | Industry or process of extracting coal from a pit/seam; or, the burrowing work of a bee such as the "scabious" species - a naturalist's dream (6) |
