| TENSION | Measurement of stitches and rows (7) |
| CASTOFF | Term meaning to reject; to release a boat, hawk or hound; or, to finish a final row of stitches and remove from a knitting needle (4,3) |
| SHAWNMENDES | Toronto-born singer of Stitches and Treat You Better (5,6) |
| NASTIER | Naming and shaming starts and row gets worse (7) |
| POTTIER | More foolish for Penny to come back and row (7) |
| SUTURES | Rows of stitches holding together the edges of surgical incisions (7) |
| SAMPLER | Piece of embroiderer's work, first of stitches larger? (7) |
| CROCHET | Needlework in which the yarn is looped into a pattern of stitches by means of a hooked needle (7) |
| CASTSON | Makes the first row of stitches |
| ALSORAN | Loser's lesion oddly covered in distinctive sort of stitches |
| BINDOFF | Technique for ending a column of stitches - US (4,3) |
| SUNYATSEN | This Pekinese was one of three dogs to survive the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. It was the companion of Myna Harper and Henry S. Harper, heir to the Harper and Row publishing company. (According to |
| DRILLS | Attends to the cavities - rows and rows of them (6) |
| TABLE | Each half or quarter of a folding backgammon board; a slab inscribed with laws; or, a matrix of data arranged in columns and rows (5) |
| TACKED | Sewed with temporary stitches and sailed into the wind |
| SEW | Use stitches and thread in this way, reportedly (3) |
| PLAIN | Knitting stitches: - and purl |
| TIERS | We hear signs of distress and rows (5) |
| TABLES | Columns and rows of data (6) |
| ROW | A spell of sculling; the distance oared; a raucous quarrel; or, a drill of vegetable plants, line of stitches, queue of people, rank of chess squares, tier of seats or other orderly file (3) |
