| INERROR | Wrong for clumsy ironworker to drop cooking pot (2,5) |
| KLITZEN | Luke's slipped around front of this zone for clumsy types (7) |
| FOUNDER | A caster/ironworker; or, a person who establishes something (7) |
| WELDERS | Ironworkers, maybe |
| DONTROCKTHEBOAT | Advice for clumsy sailor to keep situation harmonious (3'1,4,3,4) |
| SKILLET | Cook likes to keep initially low temperature for cooking pot (7) |
| GAUCHE | Got a huge C for Clumsy (6) |
| TUB | European abandons underground for clumsy boat |
| WORK | No rest for Renoir leaving ironworker (4) |
| STEELE | Apt surname for an ironworker |
| LASAGNA | This word in English has somewhat complicated origins, though it comes by way of, in part, a Latin word meaning "chamber pot" and a Vulgar Latin word meaning "cooking pot," by which it evolved to an I |
| MARMITE | Apparently from "hypocritical" and "muttering cat", a French word for a lidded cooking pot from which a brand of "loved or hated" savoury spread for bread derives its name (7) |
| PROPANE | Gas for energy under cooking pot? |
| LASAGNE | Way to suppress talk about cooking pot (7) |
| AUTOCORRECT | Aid for clumsy thumbs |
| VULCAN | Name of a Roman god of fire and the forge, hence a literary name for a blacksmith or ironworker (6) |
| SMITHY | Workshop that takes its name from the ironworker who forges in it (6) |
| KAHNAWAKE | Territory just outside of Montreal renowned for Mohawk ironworkers who have worked on buildings and bridges (such as in New York City) for over a century |
| MESSTIN | Soldier's little rectangular metal cooking pot (4,3) |
| DUTCHIE | Informally, a large cooking pot as used in the West Indies |
