Cueshtick

These clues lead to five letter words. Put the third letter from every answer together to spell out the answer to:

"What do you call carpenter's gear that's designed to carry vertical and perpendicular measuring devices?"

-1. short cessation
-2. ruckus
-3. musical study
-4. confess
-5. saunter
-6. monastery leader
-7. house
-8. prohibited
-9. start
-10. arouse
-11. a baker's money?
-12. collect
-13. maudlin
-14. beg
-15. drive forward
-16. fake
-17. nearby
-18. repeatedly
-19. antiquated

11. dough

6. abbot

4. admit

5. amble

Hey Cue.

Good start

16.Forge

3. étude

7. abode

Haroula, me thinks you were looking at #15 but that's not it either. Try again

Rog and Michele

1.Truce

14. plead

2. melee

17. close

Gail and CCB

Haroula and Gerry, try again

1. lapse
8. taboo
10. pique

Excellent, Joan

It helps if you figure out the answer to the quote
You know that I like to work backwards

Yeah, I know you like working backward, Joan. Great sleuthing!

9. onset

12. Amass
13. Corny

17. handy?

We're getting closer now

15. impel
16. fraud

Two good ones, Joan

18. often

Yes

Just the one left now

19. Passé

Plumb Bob Squarepants

Nicely done, Koala