| TRANSOM | What is a horizontal bar of wood or stone across a window or the top of a door? (7) |
| PERCH | What is a horizontal bar for a bird to rest on? (5) |
| BALANCEBEAMS | Pieces of artistic gymnastics apparatus consisting of long, narrow horizontal bars of wood (7,5) |
| SILLYQUESTION | "Should this potted plant go in the dining room window or the bedroom window?," e.g. |
| OCULUS | From "eye", an oeil-de-boeuf window; or, the boss of a volute (6) |
| LARKIN | Author of poetry collections including The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows; or, the name of a rural family created by H. E. Bates (6) |
| LIGHTS | White squares for the answers in crosswords; divisions of mullioned windows; or, the panes of glass in greenhouses and cold frames (6) |
| RUNE | Any one of the letters of the futhork or ancient Germanic alphabet, devised for carving into wood or stone; a modern interpretation of one of these for divination; a mystery or secret; or, a magic sym |
| CROWN | A simple garland or wreath as a headdress originally, later a more grandiose jewelled diadem of a king or queen; or, the top of an arch, cut gem, hat, head, pineapple or tree (5) |
| BLOCK | A flat-sided mass of wood or stone; something thus shaped, such as a pat of butter; a mould for a hat/wig; or, a group of buildings (5) |
| CAIRN | A mound of stones which marks a boundary, a route across rough ground or the top of a mountain (5) |
| PANE | Word originally for a rag or a piece of cloth that later came to mean a division of a window or its sheet of glass; or, in philately, a page of stamps from a booklet (4) |
| LINTEL | Horizontal support of timber, stone etc. across the top of a door or window (6) |
| PERNAMBUCO | The flag of which Brazilian state is a horizontal stripe of blue and white, with a red cross on the white, and a rainbow, a star and a sun on the blue? (10) |
| LAP | Single circuit of a racetrack; a length of a swimming pool; or, the top of one's thighs when seated (3) |
| SILL | Horizontal piece of wood or stone forming the bottom of a window-opening (4) |
| LINTELS | Timber or stone supports across the top of a door or window (7) |
| RAIL | *A bar of wood or iron (one of nine starred clues/answers that appear here exactly as they did in th |
| HANDRAIL | A narrow bar of wood or metal used for support when going up or down stairs (8) |
| CRESTS | From the Latin meaning "plume", showy tufts of feathers on helmets or birds' heads; cock's-combs; manes; or, the tops of waves or hills (6) |
