| SFUMATO | Mode of blending in art, described by Leonardo as "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke" (7) |
| STUMPS | Word for truncated things, such as pencil ends, residual limbs or remnants of felled/fallen trees; "timbers" forming wickets; wooden legs; or, tortillons for blending in art (6) |
| CAMOUFLAGE | Method of blending in fine, in mashed guacamole |
| PLAIN | Description of paper without lines; or, a basic knitting stitch (5) |
| EDGES | Lines along which the vertices of polygons meet; brinks of cliffs or precipices; sharpened sides of blades; or, borders of anything (5) |
| ESSAYS | In philately, proposed designs of vignettes or borders for postage stamps; or, academic writings of fewer words than dissertations or theses (6) |
| SIERRA | Main mountain system of Mexico, extending from the US border in the north to the Guatemalan border in the south (6,5) |
| MADRE | Main mountain system of Mexico, extending from the US border in the north to the Guatemalan border in the south (6,5) |
| MINGLEMENT | A literary word for the action of blending, combining or socialising; or, a medley or mixture (10) |
| JEDDART | And 1ac Weapon similar to a halberd used in the Borders in the 16thc. (7,5) |
| SHED | Shades of red on the borders in the garden (4) |
| ORLES | From "edges, hems", a word for narrow bands or borders inset from the outlines of heraldic shields (5) |
| TIJUANA | Westernmost city in Mexico, which boasts 'the most crossed border in the world' (7) |
| STREWN | Scattered about near the borders in the west |
| MOVIEEXTRAS | People without lines, and what's spelled out by the letters added to this puzzle's films |
| KRILL | With 85 known species, planktonic crustaceans integral to the food chain, as without their existence |
| WEED | Well-protected double borders in the garden (4) |
| EAST | The point of blending teas? (4) |
| ROON | Strip of material in stretched corset without lines |
| CAMOUFLAGED | Blending in with the background, so as to be difficult to see (11) |
