| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DRILLS | Bores | |
| CALIBRES | Cares about little library bores | |
| REAMS | Bores out, batters around wide end | |
| BOREDOM | The realm of bores; bores, collectively. | |
| BORER | One that bores; an instrument for boring. | |
| PINION | A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. | |
| BARK BEETLE | A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage. | |
| BORING | The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks. | |
| TREMEX | ...the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores ... | |