| EGGSLICE | Kitchen spatula characterised by its use in "eyren"-based culinary tasks, including lifting sunny side up or over-easy fried A"ufs, turning omelettes and scrambling yolks/whites (3,5) |
| MANDOLINES | Kitchen utensils with adjustable blades for tasks including cutting courgettes into ribbons, shredding Brussels sprouts, julienning or finely slicing potatoes for gratin (10) |
| LASER | Word (originally an acronym) for a beam of light used for tasks including eye surgery, cutting metal and reading the information on CDs (5) |
| GALWAYBAY | 1947 song written by Irish doctor Arthur Colahan; popularised by Bing Crosby and by its use in the film The Quiet Man (6,3) |
| UNCHAINEDMELODY | 1965 Righteous Brothers hit repopularized by its use in the 1990 film "Ghost" |
| CHORALE | Hard task including a learner in hymn tune |
| DEPUTY | Task including something more than a single representative (6) |
| FONT | Fellow not put out by its use in baptism (4) |
| ELASTANE | Synthetic fibre characterised by its ability to recover its original form after stretching (8) |
| NUCLIDE | A class of atom characterised by its atomic number and its mass number (7) |
| TEFLON | What synthetic fluoropolymer was trademarked by DuPont in 1945 and is best known for its use in kitchens? (6) |
| ALIAS | Unfortunately I am taken in by its use, perhaps |
| STARCH | Cereal- or potato-derived amylaceous substance distinguished by its use to stiffen laundry or linen; or, by extension, rigidity of manner (6) |
| PLIERS | A gripping tool distinguished by its use for bending, crimping, folding or twisting when working with wire (6) |
| SONGBIRD | Wren, nightingale, mistle thrush, skylark, robin... a passerine vertebrate characterised by its melodic call (8) |
| CONCH | A tropical marine gastropod mollusc, characterised by its large spiral shell (5) |
| TRIPPER | A fancy pigeon characterised by its puffed-out craw; or, an informal word for a failure or fall (7) |
| ASTYLAR | Architectural description of a classical building characterised by its lack of columns or pilasters (7) |
| ICHOR | The blood of the gods, in Greek mythology, - its use in the fantasy genre is, according to Ursula Le |
| BATISTE | Fine cambric whose name derives from its reputed maker or from its use in Christian immersion rituals (7) |
