| JACKKNIFE | A knife with the blade pivoted to fold into a recess in the handle (9) |
| ADZE | Axe-like tool with the blade at a right angle to the handle (4) |
| ALCOVE | A recess in the wall of a room or garden (6) |
| PENKNIVES | Small blades which fold into a handle (9) |
| ICESKATER | One of those associated with The Blades in winter chills with Kathleen and Regina (3-6) |
| ALIOTH | Star in the handle of the Big Dipper |
| MANIFESTO | A knife with tip broken off is stuck into most unusual policy statement (9) |
| PLEAT | Fold into a sample, at the end (5) |
| MASTERCAR | To stay afloat, this payment services corporation has pivoted to automaking |
| SCALPEL | A knife with a small, sharp blade used by a surgeon (7) |
| STILETTO | Spiky high heel, or a knife with an Italian name |
| BMW | Company that pivoted to making cars after The Treaty of Versailles |
| PHOSPHATES | Pet shop has pivoted to supply some fertilizer components (10) |
| SECATEURS | Is it true they fold into cases out in the garden shed? (9) |
| ENCLOSURE | Pen and fold into an envelope (9) |
| NICHE | In classical architecture, a recess in a wall for a statue, often with a semicircular apex with fluting in the form of a scallop shell (5) |
| BAY | Evergreen with aromatic leaves used in bouquet garnis and formerly to make triumphal crowns; a cove; a recess in a wall; a brown horse with black points; or, a hound's howl (3) |
| SWEARWORD | Curse the blade pinching a range of clothes (9) |
| ALLENKEY | L-shaped tool with a hexagonal cross section used to turn a screw with a hexagonal recess in the head |
| ALLAN | _ key, an L-shaped tool with a hexagonal cross section, used to turn a screw with a hexagonal recess in the head (5) |
