| SILASMARNER | George Eliot novel about a linen weaver (5,6) |
| SILAS | --- Marner, George Eliot's third novel, about a linen weaver in the village of Raveloe (5) |
| ELIOT | Pen name of the author of seven novels including one based on a linen weaver she called Silas Marner (5) |
| MIDDLEMARCH | George Eliot novel subtitled A Study of Provincial Life (11) |
| TWITE | Name, thought imitative of its note, for a brown linnet-like bird with a pale-pinkish rump, whose Latin epithet, Linaria flavirostris, means yellow-billed linen weaver (5) |
| WIMPLE | Typical headgear for ladies of the 13th century. It was constructed of a linen band, wound firmly around the chin and head, and a head band of starched linen. |
| LENIN | Historic linen weaver (5) |
| MARINER | Person sailing round island is linen-weaver |
| PRESS | Device for extracting juice from fruit or oil from olives; a printing machine; or, a linen cupboard (5) |
| ONONELEG | "... a linen stock ___...": Shak. |
| ONONE | "A linen stock ___ leg...": Shak. |
| SISAL | Sort of fibre in plants is a linen |
| NATHANIEL | A linen hat ordered for boy |
| EPHOD | It is hoped to make a linen surplice of it (5) |
| ANNIHILATE | Finish off a linen hat I fashioned (10) |
| AMICE | I came around with a linen strip for the priest (5) |
| MILLENNIAL | Member of 'Generation Y' converted a linen mill (10) |
| BATHTOWEL | Fabric in a linen closet that folds |
| COTTON | Part of many a linen blend |
| SHEET | Flat or fitted item in a linen closet |
