| KNITTING | Handicraft performed with yarn and needles of varying thickness; a favourite pastime of Queen Victoria (8) |
| ORECCHIETTE | Pasta in the form of small curved discs of varying thickness, originating in the Apulia region of southern Italy; 'little ears' (11) |
| HOBBYHORSE | Favourite pastime of one at the stables? (5-5) |
| GOLF | Whip brought round - favourite pastime of Ronnie Corbett (4) |
| TINGLY | Having pins and needles of metal, hideous but lead-free (6) |
| KNIT | Make with yarn and needles (4) |
| KIT | Set of yarn and needles for a project (3) |
| LEAF | Admired in the pastime of "peeping", any one of the organs of photosynthesis of deciduous trees and other plants, turning from green to yellow and red in the autumn (4) |
| ANGLING | From Old English for "hook", the sport or pastime of fishing with a rod, line and a baited lure, such as a fly (7) |
| KNITS | Uses yarn and needles |
| OOLOGISTS | Ornithologists who study or collect wild birds' eggs (a former pastime of "eggers", now illegal without a licence) (9) |
| RAFTING | The sport or pastime of travelling down a river on a flat, buoyant timber structure (7) |
| IDLER | A 1924 Times article headed An Enslaved America described early crosswords as "the pastime of a few ingenious ____s" |
| DARNINGNEEDLE | It has an eye for a yarn and may be used by one cobbling (7,6) |
| ECTOPLASM | In spiritualism, a substance of varying description thought to emanate from the body of a medium during trances (9) |
| JADE | A hard ornamental stone of varying shades of green and white (4) |
| SPORT | A South African's favourite pastime (5) |
| STYLUS | Diamond or sapphire needle of a phonograph cartridge for "reading" gramophone records (6) |
| NORTH | Direction in which the needle of a navigational compass points (5) |
| STILETTO | Heel, therefore, to feel the long needle of a blade! (8) |
