| NERVE | Group of fibres showing courage |
| SKEIN | Group of fibers or flyers |
| NERVEEND | In biology, terminal structure of a cord consisting of bundles of fibres (5,3) |
| GRAIN | Single seed of a cereal plant; a particle of sand, salt or gold; or, the arrangement of fibres in wood (5) |
| DENIER | From the Latin for "silver coin", word originally for 1/12 of a French sou, later a unit of the fineness of fibres or yarns, especially when woven into stockings, tights and other hosiery (6) |
| UNITE | "Oneness" in the form of an association of workers; a coupling for pipes; an esemplastic device on an ensign, flag or jack; a students' club; a textile woven from a combination or fusion of fibres; or |
| ULNARNERVE | Bundle of fibres on inner side of arm (5,5) |
| STAPLE | Principal commodity; a basic but nutritious food forming part of a diet; or, the length of fibres in wool (6) |
| ROPE | A large stout cord of strands of fibres or wire twisted or braided together (4) |
| SO | Surface of fibres |
| SPONGE | Porous mass of fibres found in the ocean (6) |
| RETE | Network of fibres |
| NAP | Raised ends of fibres on cloth surface |
| STRAND | Line of fibres twisted to form a thread (6) |
| BRIEFS | Tapestry of fibres, these worn (6) |
| NERVES | Bundles of fibres in the body (6) |
| FLAX | Source of fibres, fine and loose |
| THREADS | Hardest kind of fibres (7) |
| METTLE | Hear of lead, say, showing courage (6) |
| TWOTIME | Lead up the garden path and overturn shed full of fibres |
