| GATE | Type of door in a fence or a hedge; or, a passage into a city (4) |
| RETRIM | Do more work on, as hedges or a beard |
| TRIO | Group of three musicians; or, a passage in the middle of minuet (4) |
| HERON | Known collectively as a sedge or a hedge, a wading bird related to the little egret, spoonbill and bittern (5) |
| LOCUS | A place; the position of a gene on a chromosome; or, a passage in a book or other piece of writing (5) |
| EXTRACT | Yesterday's religious leaflet or a passage from it? (7) |
| SLAT | Dialect for a roofing tile; Irish for a spent salmon; or, a louvre, spline or strip, as in a fence or a Venetian blind (4) |
| PALE | An adjective meaning feeble, light in colour, peaky, wan, washed-out or whitish; or, as a noun, a vertical stripe on a shield; a wooden stake forming a fence; or, a conceptual boundary (4) |
| ADIT | One day, at one time, found a passage into a mine (4) |
| SHAFT | An arrow or spear; a sunbeam, lightning bolt or other column of light; the rachis or rib of a feather; one of a pair of thills of a carriage or cart; or, a well-like passage into a mine (5) |
| CLIP | Trim, as in a hedge or the edge of a lawn (4) |
| STILE | Feature of the countryside in the form of a set of steps built into a hedge or fence or a "squeeze belly" built into a dry-stone wall (5) |
| BARB | Sharp part of a fence, or a fan of Nicki Minaj |
| TRAP | Type of door on a pigeon loft; a greyhound's pre-race box-like stall; or, a pony-drawn carriage (4) |
| GAP | An opening in a fence or a pair of curtains, e.g.; a break in continuity; a col; or, a space in one's diary (3) |
| CROP | Trim a hedge or photograph |
| EDIT | Passage into a mine |
| HAY | An old word for a hedge or fence; a winding country dance; a weaving or serpentine choreographic figure in such a reel; or, etymologically linked to "fennel", a word for alfalfa, clover, grass etc, cu |
| JIBE | A type of door with direction to alter course at sea |
| BOLT | Simple type of door lock (4) |
