| HAMMER | Tool used in forging; the striking part of a doorknocker or a clock's bell; a word for an accelerator pedal in motor racing; or, a gavel (6) |
| RISP | Old Norse "scratch", thus today's word, similar to that of a blacksmith's coarse file, for a harsh scraping sound; a baker's grater; or, a Scottish door bar for a tirling ring, used in lieu of a doork |
| RATES | Ranks of ships or sailors; relative speeds of progress or change; or, a clock's gains or losses in time (5) |
| CHIME | Sound of a clock's bell |
| MASCARON | Chimeric or grotesque face on an architectural keystone, doorknocker or fountain (8) |
| THREAT | Forging the art is a risk (6) |
| STROKE | A beat of a heart; a hit of a ball in golf or tennis; a solidus or virgule; a pull of an oar; a sound of a clock's chime; or, a sudden sweep of genius or luck (6) |
| LAWN | From an alteration of dialect for "glade" or "pasture", a word for an area of grass or camomile in a garden or park; or, a fine cloth of cambric, cotton or linen (4) |
| PEAL | From "summons to prayer", word for a set or ring of bells; a chime or carillon; a series of campanological changes; or, a loud volley of cannon fire, laughter, thunder or other noise (4) |
| BUG | A word for an object of dread originally, later a creepy-crawly or minibeast; a harmful micro-organism or viral disease; a gremlin in a computer system; or, a miniature microphone, hidden for secret e |
| CLOCK | Word for a bell originally, later the striking mechanism of a watch; or, subsequently, a chronometer or timepiece with hands and a face (5) |
| SCARF | From Old French for "pilgrim's pouch or scrip", a word for an official or soldier's sash for carrying things originally, later for a length/square of cloth for the neck or shoulders (5) |
| DETAIL | Based on "to cut", a word for an individual fact or item; an area of a painting or map considered/studied separately from the whole; or, a body of troops set apart for special duty (6) |
| SECOND | A sexagesimal division of a minute; the "silver" place in a race; or, from "follow", a word for an assistant, such as that of a boxer, duellist or sixer (6) |
| TITTLE | A diacritic in the form of a small dot over a lower-case i or j, hence a word for an iota, jot or other tiny or scarcely detectable amount (6) |
| FRUIT | From "enjoyment of harvest", a word for an acorn, berry, drupe, grain, hesperidium, nut, pome or other edible part of a plant, whose other Latin sense, "profit, value", is the source of a word meaning |
| SLOUCH | From Old Norse for "lazy fellow", a word for an awkward or ungainly person; a hat with a flopping brim; a stoop; a drooping carriage or posture; or, one regarded as incompetent (6) |
| MINERAL | From a word for an excavation of earth, a term for an ore, such as coal, gold or silver, obtained by digging; a substance neither animal nor vegetable; water found in nature; or, any element essential |
| RYOT | From "flock, graze, herd", a word for an Indian peasant or farmer that is a homophone of a term for a tumult or violent breach of peace (4) |
| FOSSIL | From "to dig", a word for an ammonite or other dug-up petrified remnant of a prehistoric creature, thus for an antiquated, old, out-of-date or unchanging person or thing (6) |
