| MOUNTS | In the hobby or study of philately, another name for stamp hinges (6) |
| PHILATELISM | Variant name for stamp collecting |
| PHI | Greek character had some stamp-hinges (3) |
| AVICULTURE | The hobby or practice of fancying, keeping or rearing birds (10) |
| STAMPCOLLECTORS | The hobby or occupation of philatelists (5,10) |
| EGGCUP | Collected in the hobby of pocillovy item of tableware for a holding a food served with soldiers (6) |
| ESSAYS | In philately, proposed designs of vignettes or borders for postage stamps; or, academic writings of fewer words than dissertations or theses (6) |
| OOLOGY | The science or study of birds' eggs (6) |
| CACHET | Private seal on a letter or a document; or, a commemorative or decorative design stamped on an envelope or postcard in philately (6) |
| COVERS | Envelopes in philately bearing a stamp, postmark or label of historical interest (6) |
| STAMPS | The study of these adhesive paper squares or rectangles is known as philately |
| POUNDS | Lots of money for stamps (6) |
| GRICE | An object collected or place visited by a railway enthusiast in the hobby of ferroequinology; or, an old dialect word for a little pig or young swine (5) |
| UNDERCOAT | Downy hair close to the skin, the quality of which is judged in the hobby of animal fancy |
| DOLL | A type of effigy, puppet or toy figurine, sometimes collected in the hobby of plangonology (4) |
| GIBBONS | His catalogue of stamps, first published in 1856, was the 'bible' of philately; Edward Stanley ... |
| LATELY | Philately reduced by two-thirds recently (6) |
| MATCHES | Items kept in books or boxes collected in the hobby phillumeny (7) |
| INTEREST | Another word for a hobby or a pastime; or, a premium paid for the use of credit or borrowed money (8) |
| CORK | Stopper such as that of a champagne bottle topped with a muselet and cap/plaque collected in the hobby of placomusophilia (4) |
