| TANGLEWOODTALES | Knotty Ash, perhaps, ends sound work by Hawthorne (10,5) |
| REGARDING | About A Boy actor ends sound (9) |
| OHIO | 2004: "___ Is for Lovers" by Hawthorne Heights |
| HORSERACE | Classic perhaps, ends in wondrous line, corker penned by old poet (5,4) |
| SUDOKU | Sound work-out regularly provided by this puzzle (6) |
| HYSSOP | Express disapproval at sound work produced by plant |
| DEADLYSIN | Sloth perhaps ends daily unwinding (6,3) |
| NODES | Perhaps ends with nothing inside but lumps (5) |
| OLDSWAN | Inner-city area of Liverpool bordered by Knotty Ash, Stoneycroft, Broadgreen, Fairfield and Wavertree (3,4) |
| ROTA | Drafted a sound work timetable (4) |
| OPUS | Address to cat in sound work (4) |
| PAINTING | Dad at home with metallic sound - work of art? |
| OPTIONAL | Non-essential sound work for artist (8) |
| QUINTETTE | Sound work fencing position with battens in the middle |
| KNEAD | Require other sound work? (5) |
| XEROCHASY | Plane axes trimming raised centre on knotty ash, splitting when dry |
| DODD | Ken -, comedian from Knotty Ash (4) |
| KENDODD | Comedian who was a lifelong resident of Knotty Ash in Liverpool |
| GNARL | Left organised grand uprising - one is seen in Knotty Ash? |
| EASTWOOD | Player bearing ash, perhaps? (8) |
