| SCRUPULOUS | Conscientious to a carpenter? |
| RESPONSIBLE | Conscientious - to blame (11) |
| DAP | Timber notch, to a carpenter |
| DADO | It's groovy to a carpenter |
| TRUEUP | Make even, to a carpenter |
| DADOS | Grooves to a carpenter |
| TRUEDUP | Made even, to a carpenter |
| TOOLSOFTHETRADE | Hammer and screwdriver, to a carpenter |
| HANDTOOLS | Some things belonging to a carpenter |
| SAWN | Cut, to a carpenter |
| RESAW | Redo, to a carpenter |
| MEASURE | What you should do twice before cutting, according to a carpenter's adage |
| SQUARE | A regular quadrilateral; a quartile aspect; the figurative "shape" of a full, balanced meal; a mortarboard; a carpenter's measure; or, one of a chessboard's black/white spaces (6) |
| SHAPER | Turns up, a gent going to a hospital for scan on head is employed by a carpenter (6) |
| GNOMON | From "one that knows", a word for a carpenter's square first, later a geometric L-shaped figure, indicator, sundial's shadow caster or other tool that helps us to know something (6) |
| AUGER | A boring tool for a carpenter to use |
| AUGUR | Word, similar to the name of a carpenter's boring tool, for a Roman religious official who interpreted omens from the behaviour of birds; or, any diviner, prophet or soothsayer (5) |
| ISAWTHELIGHT | Song of a carpenter cutting a fixture hole? |
| HAMMERANDCYCLE | Two things a carpenter without a car needs? |
| NAILER | Carpenter's tool, or a carpenter, at times |
