NOTCH

Incision

• ___ on one's belt

• Kick it up a ___: Emeril

• Axe mark

• Bungle using name for bachelor Nick (5)

• Chalk up

• Conquest, figuratively

• Defile

• Dixville ___, N.H. (first town to vote in each presidential election)

• Dixville ___, N.H. (first town to vote in presidential elections)

• Gunfighter's tally, maybe

• Gunslinger's mark

• Gunslinger's tally

• Gunslinger's tally mark

• Gunslinger's tally, perhaps

• Gunstock carving

• Incremental amount

• Indentation

• Lumberjack's first cut

• Mark of a successful gunfighter

• Mark on a tree

• Mark with a cut

• Mountain pass

• Nick

• Nick in a stick

• Nick's not at church (5)

• Part of a spool

• Progress unit

• Recess

• Record, in a way

• Score

• Scorekeeper's mark, perhaps

• Serrated marking

• Step

• Stick nick

• Tallier's cut

• Tally mark

• Tally on a gun handle

• Tally symbol

• Unit on a belt

• V cut

• V-shaped cut

• V-shaped cut in wood

• V-shaped indentation

• V-shaped slit

• Vee

• ___ on one's belt

• Kick it up a ___: Emeril

• Axe mark

• Bungle using name for bachelor Nick (5)

• Chalk up

• Conquest, figuratively

• Defile

• Dixville ___, N.H. (first town to vote in each presidential election)

• Dixville ___, N.H. (first town to vote in presidential elections)

• Gunfighter's tally, maybe

• Gunslinger's mark

• Gunslinger's tally

• Gunslinger's tally mark

• Gunslinger's tally, perhaps

• Gunstock carving

• Incision

• Incremental amount

• Indentation

• Lumberjack's first cut

• Mark of a successful gunfighter

• Mark on a tree

• Mark with a cut

• Mountain pass

• Nick

• Nick in a stick

• Nick's not at church (5)

• Part of a spool

• Progress unit

• Recess

• Record, in a way

• Score

• Scorekeeper's mark, perhaps

• Serrated marking

• Step

• Stick nick

• Tallier's cut

• Tally mark

• Tally on a gun handle

• Tally symbol

• Unit on a belt

• V cut

• V-shaped cut

• V-shaped cut in wood

• V-shaped indentation

• V-shaped slit

• Vee

• A V-shaped indentation

• The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks

• A V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface

• A small cut