| CARTIRE | Attachment to a rope to make a tree swing |
| TIE | What you do to a rope to form a knot |
| CATSPAW | Tool used to create rope to make a slight breeze on the water (4-3) |
| CHAINSAW | China was all set to make a tree - cutting gadget (8) |
| TIRE | Auto part that can be turned into a tree swing |
| BARK | "As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the ___ on." - Woody Allen |
| KILMER | "Only God can make a tree" writer |
| CLOVEHITCH | A kind of knot used to connect a rope to a thicker rope or to secure a rope to a post. etc (5.5) |
| LINEAGE | Time, attached to rope, to make descent (7) |
| GRAPNEL | Device with a multiple hook at one end attached to a rope which is thrown over a mooring to secure an object (7) |
| STOPPER | Knot at the end of a rope to prevent it from slipping through a narrow gap; or, a bung for a bottle (7) |
| BOWLINE | Bend rope to make knot (7) |
| NEEDLECORD | Require the French rope to make material (10) |
| ROPE | A string of pearls; or, thick cord used for boxing rings, funambulism, hammocks, tree swings or for ladders leading to boats or tree houses (4) |
| SHEETBEND | Knot used in fastening a rope to the bight of another rope |
| BELAY | Fasten a rope to a cleat |
| UNLAY | Untwist a rope, to a sea dog |
| HAWTHORN | What strange instrument makes a tree? |
| HITCH | Clove, half, basket, boom ... knot for fastening a rope to a fixed object (5) |
| SHEEPSHANK | Knot consisting of two hitches at the ends of a bight made in a rope to shorten it temporarily (10) |
