| LASTPLACE | Wooden spoon, wooden foot and soft tatting (4-5) |
| LACE | Tatting (4) |
| LASTS | Holds out wooden feet (5) |
| STITCHING | Tatting |
| LACEMAKER | An artisan, such as the young "kantwerkster" portrayed in Vermeer's La Dentelliere, distinguished by their skill in looping or tatting bobbinet, guipure or other fine open fabric (9) |
| CAMBRIDGE | University at which the first wooden spoons as “booby prizes” were awarded |
| FALLINTOPLACE | Female exhausted by finest tatting is to finish satisfactorily (4,4,5) |
| QUEENANNESLACE | Wild carrot's other name, evoking regal tatting (5,5,4) |
| BOOBYPRIZE | Silly fool to treasure wooden spoon (5,5) |
| BOOTY | BT swapped wooden spoon for other prize (5) |
| DARE | 1990 wooden spoon winning Brisbane Bears coach, Norm ... (4) |
| SECONDLAST | Salt spilt behind back just missing wooden spoon (6,4) |
| WEDGE | Cantabrigian equivalent to the wooden spoon in the classical tripos (5) |
| LOSER | One with possibly sole right to the wooden spoon? (5) |
| PRIZE | Jimmy's wooden spoon?(5) |
| STIR | Take the wooden spoon? (4) |
| BENJIMARSHALL | Wests Tigers' 2024 wooden spoon winning coach (5,8) |
| STIRITUP | Provoke a fight - use a wooden spoon (4,2,2) |
| 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 |
| LOSTARTS | Tatting and weaving, e.g. |
