| ORMOLU | Gilt brass applied to decorative objects and furniture, originally using a mercury amalgam process (6) |
| ADDS | Includes a professional who might use a mercury amalgam (4) |
| COUSCOUS | Company originally using mostly Liverpudlian dish (8) |
| REGULAR | Usual man originally using the French king (7) |
| PRISON | Where one was penned, originally using irons (6) |
| SILVERSMITHS | Artisans who make or repair jewellery or other small decorative objects from the precious argentine metal that was formerly used to make sixpences and other coins (12) |
| NETSUKES | Seek nuts to turn into decorative objects carried on Japanese girdles |
| HOMEWARE | Name given to decorative enamelled, japanned or lacquered domestic tin articles, such as candlesticks, coffee pots, jugs, tea caddies and trays, collectively (8) |
| WROUGHT | Relating to decorative metalwork that has been made carefully (7) |
| SCRIMSHAW | Lawyer has the edge on playwright when it comes to decorative carving |
| COUGAR | This long-lived nameplate in Ford's Mercury model range started out in 1967 as a Mercury version of the Mustang (6) |
| BULB | Rounded part of a mercury thermometer; an item developed by Sir Joseph Swan; or, a head of garlic (4) |
| NICHE | Nook in a house where a decorative object might be displayed |
| JAMIET | Singer-songwriter whose 2007 debut album, Panic Prevention, was a Mercury Prize nominee (5,1) |
| EGGS | General word for decorative objects designed by jeweller Peter Carl Faberge for Russian, British and other royal families (4) |
| CRAFTSHOP | Cunning shown by unusually posh store for decorative objects? (5,4) |
| EASTEREGGS | What decorative objects is jeweller Faberge best remembered for? (6,4) |
| CHANDELIER | Eric fixed handle to decorative thing (10) |
| FTD | Co. with a Mercury logo |
| TOW | Move a Mercury, maybe |
