| NIBS | Writing ends of fountain pens; or, crushed cocoa or coffee beans (4) |
| MASH | Malt mixed with hot water to form wort; a warm feed of bran or meal for cattle/horses; a brew of tea; a bungle or muddle; an engoument or crush; or, crushed potatoes, aka champ (4) |
| MILL | Building in which grain is ground into flour; or, a device for crushing peppercorns or coffee beans (4) |
| STUB | Type of fountain pen nib producing thick and thin strokes |
| FONT | A type of fountain (4) |
| SODA | Kind of fountain or biscuit |
| TROD | Pressed or crushed with feet |
| EGOS | They may be bruised or crushed |
| ADAM | Bassist Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne |
| INKS | Options for fountain pens |
| OSMIUM | A hard alloy of this metal and iridium has been used for tips of fountain pens and phonograph needles. English chemist Smithson Tennant discovered the element together with iridium in the residues of |
| BEANS | Legumes such as haricots blancs used for cassoulet; coins; pellets for filling bags used in games; or, hard seeds of cocoa or coffee plants (5) |
| NIB | Writing end of a fountain pen (3) |
| FEATHERS | Plumes or quills traditionally fitted to arrows by fletchers or used as pens; or, long tufts of hair on the fetlocks of heavy horses (8) |
| MUG | Container for cocoa or coffee |
| ARABICA | Coffee or coffee beans originating in Ethiopia and now widely grown especially in South America (7) |
| BISCUIT | Crunchy baked food served with tea or coffee, or crushed as the base of a cheesecake (7) |
| CRABAPPLE | Comtesse de Paris, Gorgeous or Sugar Tyme, a garden, orchard, or hedgerow tree in the genus Malus with pectin-rich fruits used to set jelly or crushed for verjuice (4-5) |
| ERASER | Non-writing end of a pencil |
| DIGESTIVE | Variety of biscuit eaten with a cup of tea or crushed for a cheesecake base (9) |
