| SCHLEPP | To drag oneself or an object with difficulty (variant spelling) |
| TARGET | A buckler or small round shield; or, an object with concentric rings used as a butt for shooting at, hence a word for the butt of criticism or ridicule (6) |
| ARTICLE | A clause of the Creed or of a contract; an item of business; the adjective "the"; a feature, piece, report or other journalistic composition; or, an object, thingamy or whatsit (7) |
| PEG | Part of a riverbank allotted to an angler in a competition; stake for securing a tent rope; a clip for hanging laundry out to dry; or, an object for scoring in cribbage (3) |
| BALL | Spherical dahlia similar to the pompom variety; the founder with Farrow of a paint company; or, an object used in various sports (4) |
| BED | Area for roses, or an object that might be strewn with roses |
| INCISING | Marking or decorating an object with cuts (8) |
| SNAP | Follows an object with a camera, coming back with photograph (4) |
| TRUDGE | Otherwise urged to firstly drag oneself |
| TRAIPSE | Drag oneself to various parties. (7) |
| LIEDOWN | Place oneself or to be in a prostate position to rest or sleep (3,4) |
| MUSCLINGIN | Imposing oneself, or a hint to the gym slang added to the starred answers |
| FARTHING | Very small item or an object a long way away? |
| IRIDESCENT | Description of an object with a play of lustrous rainbow colours, such as a soap bubble, mother-of-pearl-lined shell, peacock's feather or butterfly's wing (10) |
| LOATHING | Look on an object with abhorrence |
| DECOUPAGE | The decoration of the surface of an object with paper cut-outs (9) |
| CLOCK | An object with hands and a face |
| GRABS | Act of catching an object with the hands (5) |
| CRAWL | Drag oneself along / humble oneself |
| PRAY | Address a deity, prophet, saint or an object of worship, as in the hosta cultivar: '- ing Hands'! (4) |
