| CROSSPLY | Of a tyre, having diagonally layered threads (5-3) |
| RETRYING | Call about damaged tyre having another crack |
| RADIALS | Tyres having spokes? (7) |
| TRACTION | The grip of a tyre on a road or a wheel on a rail (8) |
| MICHELIN | Andre and Edouard, French founders of a tyre company (8) |
| THRUM | Fringe, tassel of unwoven threads (5) |
| RAYON | The oldest of the man-made fibres, derived from reconstituted cellulose threads (5) |
| TWEED | A thick, woollen cloth, often woven from different coloured threads (5) |
| TOGAS | a¦to fuel forum threads (5) |
| RECAP | To replace a section of the tread of a tyre, is to do what (5) |
| TREAD | A footfall, step or tramp; one's gait; or, the part of a tyre or a shoe's sole that touches the ground (5) |
| TUFTS | Golden tassels formerly worn on titled Oxbridge undergraduates' caps and "hunted" by toadying social climbers; or, bunched clusters of feathers, grass, hair or threads (5) |
| WEAVE | Greeting top engineer, put in to manipulate threads (5) |
| YARNS | Always rejected Twitter's right wing points and threads (5) |
| CILIA | From council I accepted some short threads (5) |
| LOOMS | Machines for making fabric by weaving yarn or threads (5) |
| VALVECAP | Putting one over the weak point of a tyre also helps prevent 11 Across. (5,3) |
| BALD | (Of a tyre) with a worn tread (4) |
| INNERTUBE | Inflatable part of a tyre (5,4) |
| INNER | - tube, part of a tyre (5) |
