| MOLE | Mammal digging holes, or a beauty spot |
| TROWELS | Small garden tools used for digging holes or removing weeds (7) |
| DARN | To mend (a hole or a garment) with crossing or interwoven stitches (4) |
| DARNS | Mends (a hole or a garment) with crossing or interwoven stitches (5) |
| INHAMBANE | In hospital, a doctor unclothes Janet to reveal a beauty spot (9) |
| COURT | A patch of silk and isinglass used to cover a beauty spot in the 18th century (5,7) |
| PLASTER | A patch of silk and isinglass used to cover a beauty spot in the 18th century (5,7) |
| SEWUP | Close, as a hole or a deal |
| NAEVOID | What do naive characters make of a beauty spot? (7) |
| PATCH | Put piece on like a beauty spot (5) |
| VICTORIAFALLS | A beauty spot in Africa (8,5) |
| PAR | The standard score for a hole or a course in golf (3) |
| GATE | Northern dialect for a path, street or way; a wicket or other hinged barrier in a fence, hedge or wall; a portal; a hole or aperture, such as the eye of a needle; or, a mountain pass (4) |
| HOTELS | Time in knot holes or drinking holes (6) |
| PUNCH | A tool for making holes or indentations (5) |
| CUPS | In golf, the holes or metal containers in the holes on the greens (4) |
| BUMBLE | Word that links with "puppy" for the archaic game nine holes or "bee" for the insect whose genus Bombus means "booming" or "buzzing"(6) |
| DARNINGNEEDLE | Implement used to repair holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting (7,6) |
| GAPS | Holes or clefts |
| OPENWORK | Art technique employing holes or gaps |
