| LITTORAL | To the letter, its sounds like a shoreline (8) |
| TEATREE | It's sounds like a pot producer in the forest (3,4) |
| LITERAL | According to the letter, it's illuminated with real variation (7) |
| SPELT | According to the letters it's a sort of wheat |
| TBONE | Cut named for the letter its bone resembles (hyph.) |
| ERODES | Slowly disintegrates, like a shoreline |
| ERODE | Slowly wear away, like a shoreline |
| SPELL | Convey by the letters it's sheer enchantment (5) |
| ROCKPOOL | Inhabited by limpets, crabs, starfish and other sea life, a shoreline ecosystem in the form of a natural aquarium left behind by the tide (4,4) |
| FOOTSTEP | A pace or stride in running, walking etc; the distance covered by said tread; its sound; or, a single stair (8) |
| LYREBIRD | A winger, but you wouldn't believe it by its sound! (8) |
| EARPHONE | One sort of organ may get its sound from this (8) |
| PINGPONG | Game whose name is derived from its sound |
| TAP | A gentle knock; its sound; a faucet, spigot or valve for drawing beer or water; a Blakey or seg for the sole of a shoe; or, a bug, for spying (3) |
| PUGET | A wide indentation of a shoreline, or the body of water bounded by such a curve (5) |
| EROSIVE | Like swift streams, to a shoreline |
| COASTGUARD | A drug a Scot turned out for a shoreline patroller (10) |
| CHI | Letter it's customary to start with a greeting (3) |
| GEE | A letter, it's said, a horse may understand (3) |
| ERSATZ | Tears out the last letter; it's only a substitute |
