| HORSEHAIR | Material provided by hacks principally, or a shire, oddly |
| ANTONYM | Man with morals, principally - or the opposite? |
| RIBBON | A watchspring; a band-saw; or, one of the strips of cloth on a maypole, a morris dancer's costume or a shire horse's plaited mane (6) |
| CART | Wagon such as a horse- or donkeydrawn float for milk churns or a Shire-drawn dray for beer barrels (4) |
| SEERSUCKER | Material provided by trader, £50 being spent by gullible person |
| MOLESKIN | Material provided by spy's family (8) |
| ISTLE | Carpet material provided by communist leader |
| TOILE | Material provided by poet rejected (5) |
| BUCKRAM | Material provided by two male creatures (7) |
| CONCRETE | Material provided by Greek island on criminal (8) |
| TWEED | Material provided by overly- sentimental Howard's End? (5) |
| REP | Material provided by the Yorkshire Players (3) |
| SATIN | Quality material provided by Tyrus at intervals |
| STENCIL | Duplicating material provided by clients (7) |
| SHEEPSKIN | Material provided by follower's family |
| BRASS | An amulet or charm in the form of a bell, heart, moon, star, sun-flash etc for the harness of a shire or similar draught animal; or, the copper alloy used to make said ornament (5) |
| HUNDRED | Old subdivision of a shire or county |
| REEVE | In Anglo-saxon England, an administrator of a shire or burgh (5) |
| IRISHSEA | A shire is getting reshaped by this body of water |
| OSIER | Woven material provided from the East? That is right (5) |
