| DEVICE | Tool or gadget (6) |
| DIGGER | Tool or machine for excavating (6) |
| GIMLET | Piercing tool - or cocktail (6) |
| HAMMER | Hand tool or field event (6) |
| SICKLE | A reaping-hook; a long curved tail feather of a cockerel, reminiscent of said tool; or, with the galleon and the knut, a unit of wizarding currency in the Harry Potter universe (6) |
| SLEDGE | Tool or vehicle |
| EMPLOY | Use tool or staff |
| NAILER | Carpenter's tool, or a carpenter, at times |
| GIMMICK | A device or gadget or stratagem meant to deceive |
| GUBBINS | Trivial object or gadget (7) |
| INSPECTOR | Clouseau or Gadget (9) |
| GIMCRACK | Cheap showy trifle or gadget (8) |
| INSP | Clouseau or Gadget: Abbr. |
| ROLL | A cylinder of gift-wrap or other paper; a strip of cloth or leather with pockets for paintbrushes, pencils, sewing kits or tools; or, a type of brass gilding wheel used in bookbinding (4) |
| GANG | Word for a set of people or things which go together, such as a ship's crew; a group of labourers, sockets or tools; or, a band of children, criminals or delinquents (4) |
| SALADSPINNER | Lettuce-drying tool, or a hint to this puzzle's theme (... 2-6!) |
| SET | Coterie; blacksmith's chisel-like tool; or, the songs performed at a gig or concert collectively (3) |
| KNIFE | Tool or implement for cutting, the blade being either fixed to the handle or fastened with a hinge so as to clasp into it. These tools form the largest class of cutting implements known collectively a |
| ARTEFACT | Something made or given shape by a human, such as a tool or a work of art (8) |
| AUGER | A plumber's snake; a gimlet, wimble or other boring tool; or, a sea snail in the genus Terebra with a drill bit-like tapering spiral shell (5) |
