| WAISTS | The narrow middle parts of objects such as hourglasses (6) |
| SETS | Collections of objects such as crockery for serving afternoon tea (4) |
| ARCIMBOLDO | Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books |
| WAIST | Narrow middle part |
| SPLATS | The middle parts of the backs of chairs |
| ALBEDO | Word derived from the Latin meaning "whiteness", for a measure of reflectivity of an object such as that of a planet or the Moon (6) |
| SPIRES | Old English word for tall slender stems or blades of grass that came to mean long tapering objects, such as the tops of church steeples (6) |
| ORBITS | Regular journeys for extra-terrestrial objects such as on nameplate of 'Patriot' 45545 (6) |
| PLANET | Large object such as Earth and Mars that orbits the sun (6) |
| TORSOS | Middle parts of bodies |
| SATURN | Large US rocket used to launch objects such as a space probe or Apollo spacecraft (6) |
| BUTTON | Fastening measured in lignes; round object such as a badge or a disc of chocolate; or, a switch (6) |
| BOUNCE | Imitative word for a heavy blow or thump originally, later a jump, leap or spring; the recoil of an object, such as a ball; bluster, confidence or swagger; a boom; a lie; vitality or zip; or, body and |
| TIMERS | Devices such as countdowns, hourglasses and stopwatches (6) |
| NUCLEI | New clue's badly constructed using indicator, initially for 'middle parts' (6) |
| ENTIRE | Whole terrine's ruined if middle part's removed (6) |
| CLOCKS | Hourglasses |
| MIMICRY | The act/skill of apery or burlesque; or, the resemblance of an organism, such as a stick insect, to another animal/object, such as a twig (7) |
| STILLLIFE | Description of a painting or drawing of inanimate objects, such as Caravaggio's Basket of Fruit or Braque's Violin and Candlestick (5,4) |
| POLEVAULT | Sport in which an athlete jumps over an obstacle with the aid of a pole. Originally a practical means of clearing objects, such as ditches, brooks, and fences, this activity became a competitive sport |
