| STRAND | Single length of something such as yarn, hair or threaded pearls or beads; or, a beach or shore (6) |
| END | The extremity of the length of something, such as a hair or a road (3) |
| STRING | Threaded pearls (6) |
| UNSTRUNG | (Of pearls or beads) yet to be linked together (8) |
| TIMES | X measures the length of something |
| STRANDS | Single lengths of string, hair, wool or wire (7) |
| STRINGS | Cords or lines; or, sets of onions, pearls or other things, threaded or tied together on such thin strands (7) |
| ROPE | Word for a length of strong funicular cord, thus a cohesive strand or linked line of beads, climbers, glutinous slime, onions, pearls or other people or things (4) |
| FLOW | A current, such as the rise or advancing of a tide, as opposed to its ebb; or, by extension, any continuous or fluent stream of something, such as people, progress, wine or words (4) |
| PEARL | Relating to or resembling or made of or adorned with pearls or mother-of-pearl. |
| NEEDLEWORK | Word for stitchcraft or threaded artistry; the business of a seamstress; or, handicrafts, samplers, tapestries, tatting and other pieces darned, embroidered or sewn with sharps and bodkins, collective |
| CREEP | An act of crawling or inching slowly or stealthily; an inexorable movement of something, such as fog; or, a sycophant or otherwise unpleasant or detestable person (5) |
| ROPES | Strings of pearls or onions; or, parties of climbers joined together (5) |
| CHAPLET | Ornamental wreath of flowers, or beads worn on the head (7) |
| TURQUOISE | Paired with silver, pearls or coral in jewellery, an azure- or aqua-coloured mineral of copper-rich groundwater seeps; one of the birthstones for December (9) |
| GRAIN | Unit of mass equal to a seed of com; 1/4 of a carat formerly used to measure diamonds/pearls; or, a unit used to weigh archers' arrows (5) |
| TODD | Titular protagonist of the 1847 play The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street by English dramatist George Dibdin Pitt (7,4) |
| SWEENEY | Titular protagonist of the 1847 play The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street by English dramatist George Dibdin Pitt (7,4) |
| ROLLS | Word for cylinders or furls of something such as fabric, tin foil or wrapping paper; paradiddles on drums; petit pains; throws of dice; or, wads of banknotes (5) |
| BOUT | A curve in the side of a guitar or violin; a boxing/wrestling match; or, a period, stint or turn of something, such as drinking or ill health (4) |
