| STRICKLES | Tools formerly used by farmers to whet scythes during harvests; or, pieces of wood for levelling the tops of heaped measures of grain (9) |
| EVENING | Time for levelling the scores? (7) |
| EMBERS | Smouldering coals or pieces of wood |
| FOODMILES | Distance travelled by farmer to the retail market in trains carrying spirit back-to-front (4,5) |
| VINTAGER | One who harvests or "recoltes" the season's yield of grapes in preparation for winemaking (8) |
| KNAR | Knot or protuberance in a tree trunk or piece of wood (4) |
| LEG | League table or piece of wood (3) |
| REAPS | Harvests or cultivates (5) |
| TONG | Singular tool formerly in Chinese society |
| SWATHS | Word for measures of the widths of grassland, reckoned by sweeps of mowers' scythes originally, later bands of cut, mown or scythed grass or corn; or, any broad areas or strips (6) |
| STRICKLE | Name, rhyming with a word for a drip or a type of chutney, for a rod for levelling a heaped measure of grain; or, a tool for whetting a scythe (8) |
| DEHORNING | Is this the procedure for taking the head off the devil? That's up to the farmers to decide! (9) |
| STICKS | Pieces of wood for burning, supporting walkers, throwing to dogs or holding lollies/cocktail sausages (6) |
| 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 |
| KHARIF | Name of India or Pakistan's autumn harvest or monsoon crop, as opposed to Rabi, the spring harvest or winter crop (6) |
| FLOWERS | Organisms cultivated in strips along the edges of crop fields by some farmers to encourage pollinators (7) |
| LOGS | Pieces of wood for the fireplace (4) |
| CLOGS | Start to collect pieces of wood for footwear |
| TENON | A piece of wood for fitting into a cavity in another piece to form a joint (5) |
| TICKLETHEPALATE | To amuse the mate, had food to whet the appetite (6,3,6) |
