| STELE | Lets turn direction for an inscribed slab of stone (5) |
| ROSETTA | --- stone, an inscribed slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 (7) |
| STRUGGLE | Let's turn out cover note and fight (8) |
| TABLETS | Let's turn a bat into some small slabs (7) |
| BEAST | Second direction for an animal |
| STELA | Inscribed slab; tales (anag.) (5) |
| TILES | Slabs of baked clay for paving, roofing or for tessellating walls; decorative azulejos; slang for hats; or, pieces for mah-jong or Scrabble (5) |
| TABLET | A flat slab of stone used especially for an inscription (6) |
| DAVID | Michelangelo's 17-foot-tall sculpture, carved out of a single slab of previously rejected white Carrara marble, that became one of the most famous statues in the world (5) |
| BALSA | Bring back a slab of the lightweight wood for model-making (5) |
| CLAPPERBRIDGE | Type of construction, peculiar to the UK, consisting of large slabs of stone laid across stone pillars, over water (7,6) |
| SILL | Slab of stone or wood at the foot of the window |
| BLOCK | The head slab of wood (5) |
| LEDGER | Flat horizontal slab of stone left by trimmer (6) |
| CRAZYPAVING | Irregular slabs of stone fitted together (5,6) |
| INGOT | A slab of gold (5) |
| PIETA | Michelangelo carved it from a single slab of marble |
| TILED | Covered with thin, flat slabs of fired clay (5) |
| PAVES | Lays down slabs of concrete (5) |
| ROSETTASTONE | An inscribed stone slab discovered by members of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1799 (7,5) |
