| SIPPING | Using a straw |
| SUCKER | Mug - one using a straw? (6) |
| SIPPER | Person using a straw |
| SKIMMER | Another name for a shearwater or a straw boater; a dragonfly in the order Odonata, often devoured by hobbies; a sieve-like slotted spoon; or, a speed-reader (7) |
| PALLET | From "spade, shovel", something flat, such as a wooden blade for shaping clay/plaster; a straw mattress; a platform moved with a fork-lift truck; or, a brush for spreading gold leaf (6) |
| OAT | A cereal grass with grains traditionally fed to racehorses to gee them up; literary word for a straw of said plant as a shepherd's pipe; or, a pastoral poem generally (3) |
| STILLLIFE | Jan Jansz. Treck's vanitas of a skull arranged with a black lacquer box, overturned hourglass, scarf, shell and a straw for blowing soap bubbles, among other things; or, a painting of an array of inan |
| BLOATER | Put a pound in a straw hat and get a smoked herring (7) |
| LOT | The making of a decision by random selection of a straw or a slip of paper etc; or, by extension, an assigned or apportioned share; or, one's destiny, fate or fortune (3) |
| SUCK | Use a pacifier or a straw |
| THATCHED | Having a straw roof, a ... cottage |
| FLOAT | A drink with a straw |
| HOLE | Feature of a bowling ball or a straw |
| BEERHAT | Novelty item equipped with a tube for a straw |
| LID | One may have a hole for a straw |
| BOASTER | Old Bob wearing a straw hat is a show-off (7) |
| BARTRICK | Lifting a beer bottle with just a straw, e.g. |
| MALORT | Chicago liquor that, according to the Times, "tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires" |
| CROWCONTROL | *What a straw man in a cornfield is for? |
| SODAPOP | Drink with a straw |
