| BURL | Knot in cloth (or a noted singer-actor's first name) |
| SLASH | A sweeping stroke with a steel or scourge; the slice/stripe made by said swipe; a slit in cloth; or, a symbol aka separatrix, shilling mark or solidus (5) |
| ARCHDUKE | One prince, or a noted trio |
| RIP | A tear or rent in cloth or paper; a worthless thing; a strong tidal current; or, a dissolute character (3) |
| GIG | Word for a fancy whim, flighty girl or whipping-top originally, later a fast or light thing, such as an elegant sporty one-horse carriage; a machine for raising the nap on cloth; or, a narrow boat for |
| PIN | A secret number; or, that which fastens a hat, one's hair, paper, a tailor's cloth or a wrestler to a mat (3) |
| KRIS | Songwriter-actor's first name, which is also the first four letters of his last name |
| BODKIN | Word, used by Shakespeare in Hamlet, for a dagger; a pointed tool for piercing cloth; or, a blunt needle for threading tape (6) |
| LOU | TV Hulk actor's first name |
| ALEC | Star Wars actor's first name |
| WARREN | Andy Dalziel actor's first name for network of tunnels (6) |
| LEACH | Start to learn every single actor's first name (5) |
| GREGOR | Rab C. Nesbitt actor's first name (6) |
| EYELET | A small hole in cloth or leather; a grommet (6) |
| COCKLE | Mollusc with heart-shaped shells; or, a pucker in cloth or paper (6) |
| SNIP | A cut in cloth or in cost (4) |
| RAGDOLL | A moppet made from scraps of cloth; or, a blue-eyed affectionate cat, named for its apparent tendency to go limp or floppy, like said toy (3,4) |
| MARTIN | Pictured actor. (First name) |
| ERIQ | Pictured actor. (First name) |
| HARRISON | Pictured actor. (First name) |
