| IZZARD | Archaic or dialect word for the letter Z (6) |
| YARR | Dialect word for the corn spurrey (4) |
| EATAGE | An old or dialect word for grazing rights or pasturage; or, aftermath, fodder, grass, hay, provender and the like, for browsing cattle or horses (6) |
| BUSS | An archaic or dialect word for a passionate kiss or loud playful smacker; or, a bluff-bowed Dutch boat for herring or mackerel fishing (4) |
| POUFFE | Scots or dialect word for blows, gusts, mild explosions, wafts or whiffs of air, dust, gunpowder, smoke or the like; shots; or, hairdressers' powder pads (6) |
| KNOP | An archaic or dialect word for a hill-crest, hillock or protuberance (4) |
| EMMET | An archaic or dialect word for ant (5) |
| URCHIN | Archaic or dialect name for a hedgehog (6) |
| ATOMIC | Chemical symbol denoted by the letter Z (6,6) |
| NUMBER | Chemical symbol denoted by the letter Z (6,6) |
| ARGENT | From the Latin for "silver", an archaic or poetic word for the aforementioned metal; or, silvery-white as a heraldic tincture (6) |
| SHAW | An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| ANADEM | Archaic or poetic word for a call to arms (6) |
| ARGOSY | Archaic or poetic word for a great merchant ship (6) |
| ALBION | An archaic or poetic name for Britain or England (6) |
| WICK | Old or dialect word for a creek, farm, hamlet or village; or, a cord that supplies fuel to a candle or oil lamp's flame by capillary action (4) |
| GIRDLE | A ceinture, cincture, cingulum, elastic corset or sash; anything that encircles, like one such waistbelt; or, dialect for a bakestone/iron plate, for drop scones or Scotch pancakes (6) |
| ZEE | US word for the letter z (3) |
| ZULU | Code word for the letter Z |
| STITCH | Link of thread or wool in sewing, embroidery, knitting or crochet; or, dialect for a shock of corn (6) |
