| SPEAK | Do this or forever hold your peace |
| PEW | Spot for those who should "speak now or forever hold their peace" |
| GOBIG | Do this, or "go home" |
| SWIM | Do this or sink |
| SEEINTHENEWYEAR | Stay up past midnight to do this, or at least consider it, in January |
| STAMP | Word after "food" or "forever" |
| EPA | Govt. org. that announced plans to designate PFAS, or "forever chemicals", as hazardous |
| ARMOUR | Defensive garniture of mail or metal forming a panoply; a shell, carapace or other protective layer, reminiscent of this; or, military vehicles collectively (6) |
| COFFEE | From Arabic for "wine", a hot drink prepared from the beans, cherries or peaberries of a tropical shrub; a cup of this; or, its cafe au lait or mocha colour, when mixed with milk (6) |
| CHOICE | An option or alternative, such as the one offered by Thomas Hobson: "take it or leave it", "this or none" (6) |
| HEALTHVISITORS | Nurses mostly leave this or this to work (6,8) |
| SOANDSO | This or that (person or thing): stinker (2-3-2) |
| EVIL | Either live like this or return to your wicked ways |
| EITHER | This or that: - one or the other |
| APPLEPIE | You might be as American as this - or in this sort of (new world?) order? (5,3) |
| MINIATURE | With roses, this (or these) are one of the subjects of this week's Miscellany! (9) |
| HONEYCOMB | A mass of hexagonal cells built by bees to store their "mel" and pollen; a bewildering maze of caves or rooms etc resembling this; or, the confection cinder toffee aka hokey-pokey (9) |
| DOOR | Referred to as the "mouth of chi" in feng shui, a portal of entry; a hinged gate-like barrier/panel covering this; or, a figurative opening or opportunity (4) |
| PEPPERBOX | A pot for "poivre"; a building, tower, turret etc resembling this; or, as one word, an old gun with revolving barrels, or a buttress projecting from the left-hand wall in Eton fives (6,3) |
| CORAL | Marine invertebrate forming a reef; an orange-pink colour of the skeleton of said animal's precious red species or of the jewellery made from this; or, lobster/scallop roe, when cooked (5) |
