| TAPEMEASURE | Flexible strip used in fitting clothes (4,7) |
| MEASURINGTAPE | Graduated flexible strip used to size length (9-4) |
| SPLINES | Flexible strips used for drawing curves |
| PROPELLER | Length of cloth used in fitting attachment on aircraft |
| APARTMENT | Skill people used in fitting pad (9) |
| SUITING | Fabric used in fitting (7) |
| MASKINGTAPE | Sticky paper strip used when painting (7,4) |
| LATTICEWORK | Loosely woven strips used to form decorative panels etc (11) |
| TIDERIP | Current strip used in a stretch of broken water, in the main (4-3) |
| RULER | Strip used in drawing straight lines (5) |
| PIQUETTAPE | Adhesive strip used in a 32-card game? |
| SPLINE | Long, thin strip used in building construction |
| LATH | Wooden strip used in framework |
| BRASSBAR | *Metal alloy strip used in electronics and decorations |
| STINGER | Police spike strip used in arresting ergonomically (7) |
| NOODLES | Soba, rice, udon, egg ... quick-cook pasta-like strips used in a number of dishes including laksa, ramen and pho (7) |
| STROP | Flexible strip of material, typically leather, used for sharpening razors (5) |
| MARKERS | Scorers in squash; short name for strips used to indicate the last pages read in books; or, another name for felt-tips used with colouring-in books (7) |
| FRUMPY | Wearing outdated and ill-fitting clothes |
| FRUMP | Woman wearing old-fashioned, badly fitting clothes (5) |
