| TENTER | A machine for stretching cloth to dry in shape |
| TOWEL | Cloth to dry off with |
| TROWELS | Tools back in trailer wrapped in cloths to dry (7) |
| TEATOWELS | Cloths to dry dishes, originally designed to keep pots warm |
| GIG | Word for a fancy whim, flighty girl or whipping-top originally, later a fast or light thing, such as an elegant sporty one-horse carriage; a machine for raising the nap on cloth; or, a narrow boat for |
| STOOK | Term used mainly historically for a group of grain sheaves stood up on end to dry in a field during |
| RUMBLER | A machine for peeling potatoes; a bell or crotal on a horse's harness formerly to warn travellers on unlit country lanes; something that makes a thundering sound; or, a discoverer of illicit or underh |
| DRILL | Word for military evolutions; an auger, borer, gimlet or wimble; a furrow; a machine for sowing seeds in such a rut; or, an African baboon (5) |
| GIN | An artifice or trick; a contrivance for snaring game; a horse mill; a machine for cleaning cotton of its seeds; a variant of rummy; or, from "juniper", an ardent spirit flavoured with the berry-like c |
| CHESTY | As opposed to dry, in a sense? (6) |
| TAUTENING | Get a nut, in other words, it's for stretching things a bit (9) |
| PROSCIUTTO | Top court is roughly hung out to dry in Italy - that shouldn't be hard to swallow! (10) |
| DESICCATE | Might hang them out to dry in criminal case cited (9) |
| TED | It's spread out to dry in west Edinburgh (3) |
| UNCURLING | A French dog has large home, good for stretching out (9) |
| LENGTHENING | Lad goes first, then in good position for stretching out |
| ACCORDION | A musical instrument with folding bellows for stretching and squeezing (9) |
| FOOTSTOOL | Extension to an armchair for stretching the legs |
| SMOCKING | Before elastic, which stitching technique gathered fabric to allow for stretching? (8) |
| LATHE | A machine for shaping, boring, cutting a screw thread, etc in metal or wood (5) |
