| BIGEND | The bearing surface between the larger end of a connecting rod and the crankpin of the crankshaft (3,3) |
| CONROD | Part of engine connecting piston to crankshaft (3-3) |
| BOLETI | Mushrooms with pore-bearing surfaces rather than gills |
| STUBEND | Widened tip of a connecting rod |
| COVING | A concave curved surface between the wall and ceiling of a room (6) |
| DOLLAR | It's all about Rod and the money he earns (6) |
| RODENTS | They're gnawing at both the rods and the net! (7) |
| BRIDGE | An aqueduct, bascule, clapper, ponceau, series of stepping-stones etc spanning an obstacle such as a moat or river; or, a connecting part, such as the nose of a pair of specs (6) |
| FANBELT | Belt driven by the crankshaft that drives a fan that pulls air through the radiator (3,4) |
| LINER | Term used to describe the halves of a shell bearing for a crankshaft (5) |
| CONNECTINGROD | Bar linking the piston to the crankshaft (10,3) |
| WHALE | Any of the larger mammals with a streamlined body and a horizontal tail, breathing through a blowhole on the head |
| TIBIA | The larger of the two long bones between the knee and the ankle (5) |
| PARSI | A member of the larger of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent |
| ALNAFUD | The name for the northern portion of the larger Arabian Desert. It lies at an average elevation of 3,000 feet (900 metres) and covers about 25,000 square miles (65,000 square km). (2,5) |
| LEVY | Whose Fruit of the Lemon (1999) is set in England and Jamaica in the Thatcher era and explores Black Jamaican Britons and their struggle with the larger society? (4) |
| DIPOLE | Directional radio or television aerial consisting of two metal rods with a connecting wire fixed between them, also known as a doublet (6) |
| REBIRTH | Revival of interest in the bearing of offspring |
| BUSH | The bearing of a president? (4) |
| MIEN | The bearing of a person sounds parsimonious (4) |
