| EYELET | Grommet for receiving a shoe's lace or sail's cord; a peephole; or, one of a series of perforations forming patterns in broderie anglaise (6) |
| RICER | Garlic press-like utensil with a series of perforations through which boiled potatoes are forced (5) |
| STRING | Word for yarn or twine; a number of things threaded or tied on said line; a filing cord; a catgut of a violin; or, the twanging strand of an archer's bow (6) |
| EYELETS | Peepholes in walls; or, grommets for receiving cords, laces or ropes in boots, garments or sails (7) |
| LENS | A light-refracting concave or convex optical device in a camera, loupe, magnifying glass, microscope, monocle, peephole or telescope (4) |
| UNKNOT | Untie a shoe lace; undo a tangle of yarn (6) |
| TENDON | Cord a aching muscle to bone (6) |
| CUTOUT | A dummy figure used as a silent companion or a fireside prop; a standee in a window of a shop; a peephole in a frock; a spy's secret go-between in a plot; or, any of Matisse's decoupage pieces forming |
| GARLAND | An old word for a crown; a nautical coil or grommet of rope; a festoon or wreath of flowers and foliage; or, an anthology or florilegium of poems (7) |
| SLOT | An aperture for receiving a coin in a fruit machine or one-armed bandit; a place in a broadcasting schedule; or, the tracks/footprints of a deer (4) |
| LIFT | From "air, sky", a raise/rise; an elevator, escalator or hoist; a feeling of elation; a boost to one's spirits; a shoe's built-up heel; or, a free ride in a car (4) |
| BROGUE | Style of brown leather shoe with a pattern of perforations, originally Scottish or Irish for outdoor wear (6) |
| SPAR | Nautical word for a pole supporting a ship's rigging or sails such as a boom, gaff or mast (4) |
| TREAD | A footfall, step or tramp; one's gait; or, the part of a tyre or a shoe's sole that touches the ground (5) |
| STRIKE | A hit, such as that delivered with a hammer when the proverbial iron is hot; or, from the act of lowering a flag or sail, a refusal to work as a protest (6) |
| DISPLAY | Word, from "unfurl a banner or sail, unfold", for a courtship ritual, an exhibition, an ostentatious show, a performance, a spectacle or a VDU (7) |
| POCKET | One of six pouches on a snooker table for receiving a ball (6) |
| SPOOM | A variation of "foam" that, as a verb, means "scud or sail fast before the wind"; or, as a noun, a frothy sorbet (5) |
| BROGUES | Hardy brown leather shoes with a pattern of perforations, originally worn by Scottish and Irish farmers (7) |
| MUSLIN | Gauzy cotton, named after a Middle Eastern town, used for babies' cloths, cookery, frocks or sails, and likened to certain moths of cream or brown (6) |
