| STRICKLES | Tools formerly used by farmers to whet scythes during harvests (9) |
| FOODMILES | Distance travelled by farmer to the retail market in trains carrying spirit back-to-front (4,5) |
| TONG | Singular tool formerly in Chinese society |
| DEHORNING | Is this the procedure for taking the head off the devil? That's up to the farmers to decide! (9) |
| SCARECROW | Straw man used as a bird scarer by farmers (9) |
| APPETISER | It's a point made in the paper - something to whet your appetite (9) |
| PITCHFORK | Some farmers use this three pronged tool farmers to bale their hay (Hint: It sounds like silverware a baseball player might throw) |
| HAYMAKERS | Farmers or tedders involved in converting grass into fodder; wild swinging blows, thrown like chops with scythes; or, a country dance (9) |
| REAPPOINT | Put in for another term during harvest period (9) |
| CORNCRAKE | One of those raised by farmer from college employed in garden with land rail? (9) |
| FANTASTIC | Title of Roald Dahl's 1970 story about an enterprising animal under siege by farmers' Boggis, Bunce |
| SCINTILLA | Offence by farmer reported - it's pretty small |
| DRILLING | A term used by farmers when they're planting seeds (8) |
| SHEEPDIP | Fleece disinfectant used by farmers (5-3) |
| MULES | Word for backless shoes/slippers; Crompton's cotton spinners; drugsmugglers; hybrid canaries or sheep; jack-mare crosses; small utility vehicles used by farmers and gamekeepers; or, stubborn individua |
| CARVINGKNIFE | Detailing equipment used by farmer's wife |
| RIFLE | Gun used by farmer if legal (5) |
| ACREAGE | Measure used by farmer in frantic race against time (7) |
| FLOODING | Tactic used intentionally by cranberry farmers to reduce labor |
| TICKLETHEPALATE | To amuse the mate, had food to whet the appetite (6,3,6) |
