| OPENEND | Describes a plastic or wire capless feeder (4-3) |
| EATENUP | Put up with capless pen after most of tea was gobbled |
| STRANDS | Lengths of pearls, beads, wool, yarn or wire; or, beaches or shorelines (7) |
| GROMMET | Plastic or metal eyelet used to reinforce a hole made in clothing or shoes |
| WRAPPER | A piece of paper, plastic or foil covering an item for sale (7) |
| NOHOPER | He's expected to lose plastic or phone (2-5) |
| WELLIES | Informal term for kneelength waterproof plastic or rubber boots (7) |
| BASKETS | Containers made of interwoven strips of cane or wire (7) |
| POLYMER | Plastic or Plexiglas (7) |
| CHICKEN | ------- feed or ------wire (7) |
| PUPPETS | Dolls with strings or wires that are used to put on a show (7) |
| HEDDLES | A loom's cords or wires with eyelets through which warp threads pass during the weaving process (7) |
| WORRIES | Cause of furrowed brows or wires getting tangled (7) |
| BELLIES | Cause of furrowed brows or wires getting tangled (7) |
| CONDUIT | Passageway for water or wires |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| TIE | Around the neck it could be a skinny, or a kipper, but around a tree it's usually plastic or rubber! (3) |
| CALEDONIANCANAL | Order capless chaps on a large vessel to find waterway (10,5) |
