| KNOCKUP | Wake for practice (5-2) |
| ELEGANT | Ingenious tip for practice set up worker |
| SAMPLER | Try the right piece of needlework for practice (7) |
| ASCESIS | Only one hundred, access is managed for practice of self-discipline |
| NEEDLES | Implements in various forms for practices or activities including acupuncture, upholstery, knitting, dressmaking and tailoring (7) |
| ROUSE | Wake for union leader in red (5) |
| RUNNERSUP | Sounds like Matt's at a wake for life's habitual losers who nearly struck gold (7-2) |
| QUARK | Name derived from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake for a subatomic particle with six subspecies or flavours comprising top, bottom, up, down, strange and charm (5) |
| UPHOLD | Agree to a wake for reserve (6) |
| TRAIL | Wake, for example |
| UNREAD | Like "Finnegan's Wake," for most |
| SUPINE | Stretched out topic in sermon to include a wake for sweetheart (6) |
| UPTURN | A wake for tenor by one left holding the ashes is a trend on the road to recovery (6) |
| ONEUPMANSHIP | Individual going to a wake for worker on boat is showing up a rival (3-9) |
| RISE | Word, from "attack" and "get out of bed, wake", for the upward movement of the Sun, the Moon, a surfacing fish, proving bread, one's body from a chair or a zombie from the dead (4) |
| SKISLOPE | A snowy incline for winter sports, often with a series of moguls; or, a dry artificial construction, mimicking such a piste, for practice (3,5) |
| USING | Gun is dismantled for practice (5) |
| DRILL | Doctor needing a doctor for practice (5) |
| USAGE | Requiring, ourselves, time for practice (5) |
| ETUDE | Name a musical composition intended mainly for practice (5) |
