| HARDTOP | Car with a rigid roof (7) |
| STIFFLY | With a rigid manner (7) |
| SOLIDLY | Idyll so wrong, in a rigid way (7) |
| PROP | Support with a rigid object (4) |
| PROPUP | Support with a rigid object (4,2) |
| HARDBACK | Book with a rigid cover(8) |
| LYCHEES | Small round Chinese fruits with whitish translucent pulp and a rigid red or pink peel |
| CAST | To contrive or send forth a magical spell; a rigid plaster of Paris shell; the dramatis personae of a drama or play; a throw of dice or anything else; or, a group of bees, crabs or falcons (4) |
| SPLINT | An overlapping metal strip in medieval armour; a slip of wood for lighting a fire; a lath; or, a rigid support for a broken bone (6) |
| CHOP | A downward blow with an axe or a rigid outstretched hand; or, a small, thick cut of lamb or other meat (4) |
| SEAURCHIN | An echinoderm with a globular body enclosed in a rigid spiny test, occurring in shallow marine waters (3,6) |
| PLASTERCAST | A rigid casing made to protect a broken bone while it heals (7,4) |
| CATAMARAN | A sailing vessel with twin hulls held parallel by a rigid framework (9) |
| FRAME | A rigid surround of a painting or a door; or, the skeleton of anything (5) |
| CATATONIC | In a rigid stupor? Tom needs a stimulant! |
| DRAFT | A design drawn first on a rigid floating platform |
| TUBE | Informal word for the London Underground; or, a flexible container for toothpaste or a rigid one for Smarties, for example (4) |
| POST | Royal Mail providing a rigid support for a garden fence, perhaps (4) |
| IRONLUNG | A rigid case once fitted over a patient's body to aid artificial respiration and combat polio (4,4) |
| BANGLE | From Hindi for "glass", a rigid bracelet, such as any one of those forming a set or "chooda" worn by an Indian bride on her wedding day (6) |
