| SHEETBEND | Knot often used to join ropes of different sizes |
| GLISSADES | Ballet steps often used to join |
| CARRICKBEND | Variety of knot used to join ropes end to end (7,4) |
| TURKSHEAD | Decorative knot, often made around a cylinder |
| HALFHITCH | Simple overhand knot often tied around an object in pairs (4,5) |
| SPLICE | First of all simply place loops in certain eyelets to join rope (6) |
| POODLE | A curly-haired breed of dog with varieties of different sizes, originally bred to hunt waterfowl (6) |
| MATRYOSHKA | Set of Russian wooden dolls of different sizes (10) |
| POODLES | Curly-haired dogs with varieties of different sizes, originally bred to hunt waterfowl (7) |
| BADGERLEGGED | Hound, large, goaded with pins of different sizes |
| HETERODONT | Where an organism has teeth of different sizes and shapes (10) |
| HALFTONE | Representing light and shade photographically by dots of different sizes (4-4) |
| PENNYFARTHING | Bicycle with wheels of different sizes (5-8) |
| BARCODE | How a boxer might read poem on the radio - its lines are, crucially, of different sizes |
| UNEQUAL | Of different size, length (7) |
| BEND | Type of knot used to join two ropes (4) |
| COTTERPIN | Piece of metal used to join two parts of a mechanism (6,3) |
| STITCHES | Loops of thread used to join the edges of a wound (8) |
| STRING | Word for a filing cord, hypothetical thread of matter, rope of pearls, strip of "silly" aerosol foam, tough fibre of a French bean, twanging wire of catgut or other line, filament, strand or twine (6) |
| SUTURE | Length of thread used to join the edges of a wound by stitching (6) |
