| LINSEEDOIL | Natural substance used as a finish for traditional wooden cricket bats (7,3) |
| LACQUER | A finish for gun wood from the hair care department? (7) |
| BAT | Wooden cricket club |
| TOCAPITALL | As a finish to hatter's ambition? (2,3,2,3) |
| CHROMEALUM | Violet-coloured crystalline substance, used as a mordant in dyeing (6,4) |
| LIGNOCAINE | Substance used as a local anaesthetic in dentistry (10) |
| FERTILISER | A chemical or natural substance put on land to supply nutrients to plants (10) |
| ROYALJELLY | Natural substance served at prince's birthday (5,5) |
| HOMEOPATHY | Alternative medicine in which ailments are treated by tiny doses of natural substances (10) |
| WILLOWHERB | Plant cricket bat before woman's bowled (10) |
| CLAY | What natural substance was formerly used as a thickener in liquid polishes? (4) |
| BENCH | General name for a garden seat with a traditional wooden design named after its creator Edwin Lutyens (5) |
| BEETLE | Insect studied in coleopterology such as a ladybird or may bug; a traditional wooden potato masher; or, the model of the car "Herbie" (6) |
| PETROLEUMJELLY | Translucent gelatinous substance used as a lubricant and as an ointment base |
| LIQUORICE | A chewy, aromatic black substance used as a sweet and in medicine (9) |
| PRIMER | A substance used as a preparatory coating on wood, metal or canvas (6) |
| MASTIC | A sticky putty-like substance used as a filler or adhesive (6) |
| NACRE | Tin backed by engineers as a valuable natural substance |
| TOGGLES | Traditional wooden or horn fasteners with leather loops for duffel coats (7) |
| MORTISE | The hollowed-out part of a traditional wooden joint, into which the tenon goes (7) |
