| SPOON | One of the pieces of cutlery forming or stored in a canteen (5) |
| ONION | Vegetable planted in a set, dried in a string/rope or stored in a hopper (5) |
| SLIDE | When we take our two kids to the large playground right in the centre of Countess Wear, they get excited about one of the pieces of playground apparatus in particular (2,3) |
| SARDINIA | In 2.6, the triumvirate (Caesar, Antony, and Lepidus) offer Pompey two pieces of land if he would "Rid all the sea of pirates" Name one of the pieces of land he is offered. |
| FORK | Item of cutlery forming a canteen; or, a tactic in chess whereby a piece simultaneously attacks two or more pieces (4) |
| BASAL | Forming or belonging to a base (5) |
| ARCED | (architecture) Forming or resembling an arch. |
| SPOONS | Items of cutlery forming part of a canteen with knives and forks (6) |
| KNIFE | An instrument such as a Gurkha's kukri, a chipper's blade or one of the cutlery items stored in a canteen (5) |
| BONES | The pieces of whitish tissue making up the skeleton (5) |
| QUITS | Abandons game with one of the pieces missing? |
| PIANO | An instrument played in many of the pieces composed by Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy or Florence Price (5) |
| ERASE | Remove the record ages before the end of the piece (5) |
| JACK | One of the pieces used in dibs; a male donkey or merlin; a boot pull; a bell-striker; or, a knave in cards (4) |
| NAAFI | In World War II, a canteen for British service personnel, named after its initials (5) |
| GULAG | Most of the piece on the foreign golf camp that might hold you captive (5) |
| CHEQUER | An old word for a chessboard; its pattern of alternating colours; or, one of the pieces used in draughts or in a game similar to halma (7) |
| SATIE | Composer of the "Pieces froides," whose first movement is entitled "Tunes to Make You Run Away" |
| KING | Crowned piece in draughts; the 13th playing card in a given suit; or, one of the pieces in shogi (4) |
| WATER | With heat being a major threat to its eggs and young, that big bill also serves as a canteen, bringing ___ to shower over its nest. |