| GIST | The drift or meaning (4) |
| CELL | Small "popcorn" thunderstorm; or, meaning "chamber" or "storeroom", name suggested by Robert Hooke for any one of the body's trillions of protoplasmic units carrying genes (4) |
| TWIG | Get the drift, from the stick (4) |
| SNOW | During broadcast, nation's leader gets the drift |
| SEES | Gets the drift |
| SCAN | Get the drift, perhaps |
| ALIS | "___ volat propriis" (motto of Oregon meaning "She flies with her own wings") |
| HEADING | The direction in which a seagoing vessel's bow is pointing; the title of an article, chapter, document or page; or, the adit, drift or gallery of a mine (7) |
| LEEWAY | A boat's sideways drift; or, alluding to the space said craft has "given" to the wind, a term for freedom, latitude, room to manoeuvre or slack (6) |
| BLUEPETER | Nickname given to the nautical signal flag representing the letter "P" or meaning "outward bound" (4,5) |
| GRASPED | Understood or realised the significance or meaning of (7) |
| TENOR | Drift or purport |
| CONTINENTAL | Sort of breakfast, drift or quilt (11) |
| HETERORYM | One of two or more words with the same spelling but a different pronunciation or meaning (9) |
| EPIPHANY | A sudden revelation or insight into the nature or meaning of something (8) |
| SKENE | A Highlander's dagger; or, meaning "hut" or "tent", a structure at the back of an ancient Greek stage, originally a dressing room (5) |
| VICEVERSA | With the order or meaning reversed |
| VAGUE | Uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning (5) |
| ROASTPORK | Spooner's after the drift man, hence the crackling (5,4) |
| PEN | A fold, stall or sty; the drift, drove or flock of farm stock in any such an enclosure; "feather", a quill honed and split with a knife to form a nib; instrument modelled on this, such as a stylograph |
