| SPLIT | A crack |
| FISSURE | A crack |
| CREVICE | A crack |
| SNAP | Word for a sudden audible nip; a snack or nibble; a crack; an earring; a ginger nut; an interjection meaning "same, matching"; a quick photo; a popper; or, a sharp spell of cold (4) |
| CHOP | A brand; a crack; a piece cut off; a sharp downward blow with an axe, cleaver or hand; diced food; a slice of lamb or pork; or, ocean waves (4) |
| BREAK | A crack, fracture or split; a brief pause for elevenses, fourses or tiffin; a sudden rush to escape; a change in the weather; or, a caesura (5) |
| SALUT | Word for a crack of a ship broken by a rock first, later a lengthways divide, slash or slit of a banana, cream bun, curtain, plank or anything else (5) |
| BASH | A heavy blow or biff; a dent; a blast or party; or, a crack at something (4) |
| LEAK | Homophonous with the name of a spring onion-like scallion, a word for a crack allowing the escape of liquid, gas or figurative secret information (4) |
| COVENTRY | A lot of witches have a crack at banishment (8) |
| SOCK | A crack in a drawer in the bedroom (4) |
| CAR | In a crack-up, maybe a write-off |
| PROFOUNDFAULT | Discovered a crack in the earth's crust that has a really deep meaning? |
| AJAR | Like a door with a crack in it |
| NARCO | A run taken by sergeant - maybe part of a crack team in America? |
| COATRACK | Find a bit of porridge in a crack in the hall stand (8) |
| LEAKAGES | Instances of a fluid or gas escaping through a crack or hole (8) |
| THUNDERBOLT | A crack of lightning imagined as a weapon wielded by Thor or Zeus (11) |
| CLEFT | A crack in a rock or the ground |
| SEEPEDIN | Entered via a crack, maybe |
