| CURVE | Bend in a road; a locus of points; or, a graph or one of its lines (5) |
| TWIST | A bend in a road; a swindle; a silk thread; a mixed drink; a spiral-shaped barley sugar, roll of bread/tobacco, sliver of lemon zest or wineglass stem; or, a style of hip-gyrating dance (5) |
| RHYME | Verse or piece of poetry with corresponding sounds at the ends of its lines (5) |
| LATTICE | Regular geometric arrangement of points or objects such as the atoms in a crystal (7) |
| ALLEYWAY | Raise a shout in a road - a very narrow one (8) |
| SPIKE | Each of a series of projections on a track-running shoe; a variety of lavender; a sharp peak in a graph; or, an ear of wheat or barley (5) |
| BOSOM | Word for one's breast or chest; the heart area regarded as the locus of emotions; one's clasp, embrace or loving care; or, any protective centre (5) |
| OSIER | Small species of willow or one of its flexible twigs used in basketry (5) |
| NIDUS | A central point or locus of an infection in an organism. |
| ELBOW | Sharp bend in a road or river (5) |
| PRONG | A fork; or, one of its tines (5) |
| ORIEL | Oxford college, or one of its windows? (5) |
| GRADIENT | From "step", an incline, such as that of a road or a train track; the degree of said slope; the extent of steepness of a graph at any point; or, a progressive blend from one colour to another (8) |
| FOCAL | Kind of point or length |
| EVENS | Fair chance this number's lost its line (5) |
| NODE | A vertex in a graph or a tree diagram; or, a point on a plant's stem from which a leaf emerges (4) |
| 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) |
| DOGLEG | What describes a sharp bend in a road, or a golf hole where the fairway has a bend? (3-3) |
| PLACE | Locus (5) |
| TOMIS | Locus prope Pontum Euxinum quo in exsilium missus est 6d 13 |
