| ABRADE | Cause fraying of a ribbon, we hear |
| PURL | Warmed spiced wormwood ale; a knitting stitch; a cord of twisted gold or silver wire; an ornamental loop or picot on the edge of a ribbon; an eddy or ripple; or, the babble, bubble, burble, gurgle or |
| ABANDONS | Strands of a ribbon on a pole (8) |
| AGLET | A metal tube at the end of a ribbon or shoelace; or, any ornamental pendant or dangling thing (5) |
| CORDON | Rope on the end of a ribbon |
| GRANDOPENING | Site of a ribbon-cutting ceremony |
| TELOMERE | Sometimes described as the biological equivalent of an aglet that prevents a shoelace from fraying, the protective tip of a chromosome (8) |
| OVERLOCK | Description of a type of stitch used to prevent fraying (8) |
| SELVAGE | Non-fraying edge of a fabric (7) |
| TASSEL | Ornamental tuft of threads secured with a knot for upholstery or a mortarboard; thin plate of gold on an episcopal robe; inflorescence of maize; or, a ribbon bookmark (6) |
| SASH | From the French word "chassis", meaning "frame", a term for a sliding framework fitted with a windowpane; or, a ribbon or a scarf worn as a belt (4) |
| STREAMER | A ribbon of news; a strip of confetti; or, a ray or wisp of auroral light (8) |
| WEAR | Bit of fraying |
| EGRESS | Way out of serges fraying (6) |
| SEPTEMBER | Live among tempers fraying in part of autumn (9) |
| SPLITENDS | Fraying at the tips of one's hair: 2 wds. |
| STAIRWELL | Tall wires fraying in part of tower (9) |
| LARYNX | Casual about occasionally fraying part of body |
| DEATH | The fringes of aged, fraying curtains |
| LOOSEENDS | Fraying result, and what the second parts of the starred answers can be |
