| INSTRUMENT | Tool, it turns out, captivates blokes (10) |
| JAMMER | Jack's replaced head of tool: it blocks signals (6) |
| PICK | The best tool - it breaks |
| ADDS | Tacks on a woodworking tool, it is said (4) |
| BARSTOOL | Lawyers' tool - it provides support in a pub (3,5) |
| EOLITH | A stone tool, it will cut rough hole (6) |
| ADZE | Hand tool for shaping wood. One of the earliest tools, it was widely distributed in Stone Age cultures in the form of a handheld stone chipped to form a blade. (4) |
| EXTRANEOUS | Irrelevant minor performer ___ no use, it turns out (10) |
| MINESTRONE | Norsemen, it turns out, had soup! (10) |
| SATURNALIA | Celebration when it turns out aunt's a liar (10) |
| SCRIMPIEST | Least generous politician gets in crises, it turns out (10) |
| REPLIERS | About the tools, it is up to the people who answer (8) |
| OVERRIDDEN | Passed over - or never did, as it turns out |
| INTHEEVENT | As it turns out (2,3,5) |
| LEADPENCIL | The writer is called Pine, it turns out (4,6) |
| INPRACTICE | Rate picnic that's awful as it turns out |
| EITHER | It doesn't matter which here, it turns out (6) |
| INNATE | At nine, it turns out, it is born within one (6) |
| EVERTS | It turns out always it's one fewer (6) |
| SOMETHINGCAMEUP | "It turns out I actually can't make it" |
