| BUNG | A plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask (4) |
| BUNGHOLE | Hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it (5,3) |
| SPILE | Spout/plug for a hole in a barrel or cask |
| SEWS | Closes a hole, say |
| DARNS | Closes a hole, perhaps |
| CORKS | Tree bark plugs used to seal wine bottles |
| CADE | An orphaned colt or lamb reared on a bottle, often as a pet; a barrel or cask; or, a Mediterranean juniper (4) |
| GATE | A barrier used to close an opening in a wall or fence (4) |
| HOOP | Iron band securing a stave of a barrel; or, a croquet arch (4) |
| SEAL | Wax used to close a letter |
| RICK | A stack of corn or straw with a thatch; a sprain or wrench; a set of shelves for barrels; or, a heap (4) |
| BORE | Word, distantly related to "gullet, pharynx", for the hollow part of a gun barrel or other tube; or, said cylinder's calibre or diameter (4) |
| DRUM | Type of oil barrel; or, a rotating cylinder in a washing machine (4) |
| SLAM | To close a door with force (4) |
| BUTT | Barrel or the other end of a gun (4) |
| WOOD | Material used to make bassoons, barrels or biased balls for bowling (4) |
| BISCUIT | Custard cream, bourbon, rich tea ... a crumbly food sometimes stored in a barrel or tin with a sweetmeal variety crushed as the base of a cheesecake (7) |
| APPLE | There might be one bad one in a barrel or, in a heap, plenty (5) |
| CANK | Barrel or butt ___ a hundred-dollar question (4) |
| CASK | Barrel or butt - a hundred-dollar question (4) |
