| DIPPER | Bird also called a water ouzel; a pickpocket; type of ladle; or, an implement for drizzling honey (6) |
| SCOOP | Exclusive type of ladle |
| HOOK | A sickle; a curved peg or pin on which to hang a coat or painting; or, an implement for crochet (4) |
| DIPPERS | Water ouzels; or, wooden utensils for drizzling honey (7) |
| BRUSH | A thicket; a fox's tail; a fleeting encounter; or, an implement for applying paint in art or decorating (5) |
| UTENSIL | Ladle or grater |
| SKIPPET | Long-handled ladle or scoop |
| SCOOPER | An avocet; an engraving tool; a utensil that ladles or gouges; or, a journalist who obtains exclusives (7) |
| AWOKE | Stirred using a cooking pot and end of ladle |
| CRUCIBLE | Lift sides of ladle containing copper over smelting vessel |
| NIPPER | A carter, a costermonger or a navvy's boy assistant; a chela of a crab or a lobster; a child; a cutpurse or a pickpocket; a creature that bites or pinches; or, one of a pair of cuffs (6) |
| NEEDLE | Leaf of a fir or pine tree; pointer on a navigational compass; a stylus; or, an implement used in pairs for knitting (6) |
| DIVER | A frogman/woman; a slang word for a pickpocket; or, an aquatic bird also called a loon (5) |
| DIP | Related to "dive", a word for a plunge; a bath; a quick swim; a hollow; a candle; a sag; a pickpocket; or, sauce in which to dunk crisps/crudites (3) |
| STICK | An implement for hockey; a twig; or, a miniature skewer for impaling a cherry, cocktail sausage, olive etc (5) |
| BLACKBIRD | An ouzel or merle esteemed for its mellow song; or, the title of a 1968 song by the "Fab Four" (9) |
| COTTONMOUTH | Large pit viper of the south-eastern US also called a water moccasin (11) |
| GAMMON | A victory in the game formerly called tables; patter of a pickpocket's accomplice to distract a victim; ham for cooking; or, nonsense (6) |
| SYRUP | From the Arabic for "sherbet" and source of "sorbet", a sugary liquid used for drinks, drizzling on ice cream, preserving fruit or for sweetening (5) |
| MERLOT | From French patois for "little blackbird", a Bordeaux grape variety, named for its resemblance to the blue-black colour of said ouzel (6) |
