| INSULATED | Covered as a pipe or wire with same non-conducting material |
| HEDDLES | A loom's cords or wires with eyelets through which warp threads pass during the weaving process (7) |
| INSULATE | To cover with non-conducting material, is to do what (8) |
| INSULATOR | Non-conducting material |
| SQUEAK | A sound of a mouse or a pan of bubbling, frying colcannon; a rat or snitch; a pipe or whine; a single remark; a narrow escape; a jot; a bare chance; or, a feeble paper/local rag (6) |
| ELL | A pipe or tube with a sharp right-angle bend (3) |
| RHEOSTAT | A variable resistance, usually consisting of a coil of wire with a terminal at one end (8) |
| CRIMP | A kink/wave in hair or wool fibres; a pinch in the edge of a pie's pastry crust; or, a connector for a length of beading thread, cable or wire (5) |
| BOWDLERISATION | Wire with bloodstain removed as a clean-up act (14) |
| PIN | A short sharp-pointed piece of wire with a round head for fastening things |
| OUTFALL | A pipe or hole through which water or gas can escape (7) |
| OUTLET | A pipe or hole through which water or gas can escape (6) |
| LEYDENJAR | Glass container coated with conducting material (6,3) |
| MICROCHIP | Tiny wafer of semi-conducting material or very small piece of potato? (9) |
| CLIP | Barrette or slide for the hair; an extract taken from a film, magazine or newspaper; a device for holding banknotes; or, a type of brass or wire paper-fastener (4) |
| STRING | Word originally for a rope/strand of any thickness, later a thin length of twine; the cord of an archery bow; or, a stretched piece of catgut or wire for a cello, guitar, piano or violin (6) |
| UBEND | Curve in a pipe or drain that traps water and prevents the escape of noxious fumes or vapours (1-4) |
| SMOKE | Enjoy a pipe or a cigar |
| ISAY | "___ a Little Prayer" (Dionne Warwick song covered as a duet by Pharrell and Tori Kelly) |
| BARBED | Wire, strong wire with sharp points at close intervals (6) |
