| TARTLY | In a cutting way |
| SHARPLY | In a cutting way |
| POINTEDLY | Turned tepid only in a cutting way (9) |
| DISSECT | A cutting way to take sides on court (7) |
| EDIT | Work in a cutting room |
| ABRASIVELY | In a cutting manner |
| BORT | Diamond in a cutting tool |
| WAND | Something slender and supple, such as a cutting, osier, sapling, stick, or switch; a baton, caduceus or rod of a conductor, conjurer, diviner, fairy or magician; a mark in archery; or, a "spoolie" for |
| TEMPLATE | Shape used as a cutting guide in patchwork; or, a preset format for a file or document in computing (8) |
| PIPING | Lines, strings, swirls etc of cream or icing ornamenting cakes/puddings; fabric-covered cord as a trimming; a cutting of a carnation or a pink; or, a collective system of tubing (6) |
| BEZEL | A cutting tool's sloping edge; an upper oblique face of a cut gem; or, a grooved collet in which a jewel is set (5) |
| PLOW | A farm implement with a cutting blade for cutting burrows in the soil and turning it up / cultivate |
| PERICOPE | From "a cutting-out", a clipping or extract, particularly a passage from the Bible for reading in church (8) |
| LATHE | A machine tool in which wood or metal is rotated against a cutting tool (5) |
| ADZE | A cutting tool with a blade at right angles to the handle that is used for cutting wood (4) |
| SLIP | A cutting, scion or shoot of a plant, thus a baby sole, child, chit, piglet, scrap of paper, young person or other small or immature thing (4) |
| SECANT | A cutting line in geometry (6) |
| OPERATE | Do a cutting job in 5 (7) |
| SERRATE | Make a mistake by getting into another seat with a cutting edge |
| WHIPSAW | A cutting implement used at a cracking pace? (7) |