| INSTANCE | Case of anything |
| EDGES | Lines along which the vertices of polygons meet; brinks of cliffs or precipices; sharpened sides of blades; or, borders of anything (5) |
| SUMMIT | Apex or acme of anything such as a mountain or of success; or, an assembly of government leaders (6) |
| KERNEL | From "corn", a whole grain of wheat or other cereal; the edible central part of a fruit stone, nut or seed; by extension, a nucleus; or, the essential or core part of anything (6) |
| AGNOSTIC | Person who holds the view that nothing can be known of the existence of God or of anything beyond material phenomena (8) |
| LOOTED | Wrongfully emptied of anything of value |
| CORE | The central innermost part of anything / 'the heart of the matter' |
| LENGTH | Longest measure or dimension of anything; or, the number of cards held in a suit in bridge (6) |
| NIGHTTIME | Part of a planet or a moon facing away from the Sun, thus in darkness; or, by extension, the dark, gloomy or mysterious aspect of anything (9) |
| CORPUS | From the Latin for "body", word for a collection of writings; or, the main part or substance of anything (6) |
| STREAM | A beck, brook, burn, rivulet or other small natural body of running water; or, a flow of anything, such as gas, internet data, meteors, money into a business, people or words (6) |
| FRAME | A rigid surround of a painting or a door; or, the skeleton of anything (5) |
| MARROW | Myeloid tissue in the medullary cavities of bones; or, by extension, the central or vital part of anything (6) |
| LOAF | Don't do much of anything |
| ARSENAL | Large supply of anything |
| FRONT | Foremost part of anything |
| XENOPHOBIA | Fear of anything foreign or strange |
| SNED | Beginning of anything |
| GRAIN | Small hard particle of anything (5) |
| SEEDS | Sources/beginnings of anything |
