| TRANSOM | Horizontal bar of wood or stone across the top of a door or window (7) |
| DUCKS | - and drakes; outdoor game or pastime where the object is to skim a stone across the surface of water as many times as possible before it sinks (5) |
| BALANCEBEAMS | Pieces of artistic gymnastics apparatus consisting of long, narrow horizontal bars of wood (7,5) |
| DOVEDALE | Peak District beauty spot, renowned for its stepping stones across the river (8) |
| LINTELS | Timber or stone supports across the top of a door or window (7) |
| LINTEL | Horizontal support of timber, stone etc. across the top of a door or window (6) |
| TOOLBAR | Functional row of buttons across the top of the computer screen |
| TRILITH | Structure consisting of two upright stones with a third placed across the top (7) |
| RUNE | Any one of the letters of the futhork or ancient Germanic alphabet, devised for carving into wood or stone; a modern interpretation of one of these for divination; a mystery or secret; or, a magic sym |
| BLOCK | A flat-sided mass of wood or stone; something thus shaped, such as a pat of butter; a mould for a hat/wig; or, a group of buildings (5) |
| BUST | A sculpted portrait, often set on a pedestal in a grand room; the economic antithesis of a boom; a blackjack loser's fate; or, a police raid involving a smash of a door or gate (4) |
| THEWALL | One of those across the top had blue twill pants (5,3,4) |
| MORTISE | ---- and tenon joint, used in wood or stone (7) |
| SQUEAK | A bare chance; a feeble newspaper/rag; a narrow escape; the slimmest of margins; a sound of a door or a mouse; or, a tiny amount (6) |
| SILL | Horizontal piece of wood or stone forming the bottom of a window-opening (4) |
| CHISELS | Tools used to shape wood or stone |
| BAIL | In cricket, either of the small wooden bars placed across the top of a set of stumps to form a wicke |
| HANDRAIL | A narrow bar of wood or metal used for support when going up or down stairs (8) |
| PELMET | What border across the top of a Window conceals the curtain fittings? (6) |
| RAIL | *A bar of wood or iron (one of nine starred clues/answers that appear here exactly as they did in th |
