| POUNDS | Works away with pestle and mortar making quids (6) |
| GRINDS | Works away, and departs wreathed in smiles |
| PLIER | One who works away steadily with tool, with no end in sight (5) |
| SPACEMAN | He works away from home (8) |
| AGATE | Variety of chalcedony formed from layers of quartz, used to make cabochons, beads, pestle-and-mortar sets and toy marbles (5) |
| ICING | If necessary, ____ sugar can be made from granulated sugar with a pestle and mortar |
| BRAY | To crush, grind or pound, as with a pestle and mortar; or, to heehaw like a donkey or cry like a mule (4) |
| CRUSHED | Deflated, but in a pestle and mortar? (7) |
| SALTPETRE | Pestle and mortar only half ground white powder (9) |
| CAMELS | Having the hump, perhaps, they turned up with quids! (6) |
| OFFICE | Where one could be at work, away from work cooler! (6) |
| MORTAR | Bowl used with pestle |
| METATE | Traditional Mexican quern used with a mano like a mortar and pestle (6) |
| FEEBLE | No strength to professional charge : be quids in, though (6) |
| PESTLE | ___ and mortar, kitchen aid (6) |
| REALTY | Why alter bricks and mortar? (6) |
| BRICKS | ____ and mortar, description of a traditional business in physical form (6) |
| VESSEL | In The Court Jester, Danny Kaye finally had to remember that, "The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the ... with the pestle has the brew that is true" |
| DOTCOM | Counterpart of a brick-and-mortar business |
| MASONS | Bricks-and-mortar workers |
