| TILLS | Works, cultivates or ploughs the soil in readiness for growing crops (5) |
| TILL | Work, cultivate or plough soil in readiness for growing crops (4) |
| SOLE | Underside or bottom of a boot, clubhead, foot, oven or plough; the floor of a ship's cabin; or, the end of the chanter of a set of bagpipes (4) |
| ARAT | The farmer ploughs the land, agricola terram ____ |
| NEANDERTHALMAN | An old relative of ours ploughs the land near isle (11,3) |
| TILLER | A lever attached to a boat's rudder for steering; the stock of a crossbow; a cultivator or plough; or, a sapling (6) |
| TILTH | The state of the soil in lentil thickets (5) |
| ERGOT | Cultivate, or get a disease in some of the plants |
| ROOTS | Turns up the soil in plants' feeding systems ... |
| LIMED | Treated the soil, in a way |
| RAKED | Smoothed the soil, in a way |
| AMICI | Piratae, ____ qui mare arant; friends who plough the sea |
| RAISE | Cultivate or levitate |
| FALLS | Ploughs |
| PLODS | Ploughs |
| ENGARDE | In fencing, a warning to adopt a defensive stance in readiness for an attack (2,5) |
| WEIGHANCHOR | Unmoor in readiness for setting sail (5, 6) |
| TILLAGE | The act or practice of preparing land for growing crops; the arable tract being cultivated; or, agronomy, farming or husbandry generally (7) |
| ARDROSSAN | In which small South Australian port on Gulf St Vincent did the inventor of the Vixen stump-jump plough open a factory in 1880 for the manufacture of ploughs? (9) |
| ACTIONSTATIONS | Posts taken by military personnel in readiness for battle (6,8) |
