| THIMBLES | Metal or ceramic caps protecting the fingertips during needlework (8) |
| CROTCHET | Note taken originally during needlework |
| THIMBLE | Protective metal or ceramic cup for the finger, used in sewing (7) |
| DABS | Informal word for the fingertips; aces, adepts or experts; small plaice- or sole-like flatfishes sometimes caught by trawlers or shrimpers; gentle pats or taps; or, blobs of chocolate, glue, ink, pain |
| CUBIT | The length of the ancient unit of measurement was supposed to be the distance from the elbow to the fingertips |
| KEYBOARD | Has all the letters at fingertips for important committee (8) |
| NAILS | Tacks such as tingles or trunnels; talons; or, ungues of the fingertips, beautified in the art of manicure (5) |
| HANDLESS | Word for a short enumeration or inventory without detail, for convenient characteristically easy-to-reach reference at one's fingertips (8) |
| PLECTRUM | Pick something guitarists like to have at their fingertips (8) |
| NAILFIES | Selfies, but for the art on one's fingertips |
| AGNAIL | Piece of torn skin on the upper surface of the fingertips (6) |
| NAILFILE | Secure collection of data that you may need at your fingertips (4,4) |
| HANGNAILS | Annoying bits of torn skin near the fingertips |
| NAIL | A fastener kept right at the fingertips |
| KEYS | Levers depressed with the fingertips when playing a piano (4) |
| ZITHERS | Which musical folk instruments are played with a plectrum and the fingertips (7) |
| ZITHER | Which musical folk instrument is played with a plectrum and the fingertips (6) |
| PINCHING | squeezing with fingertips |
| ENAMEL | Protective or decorative coating baked onto metal, glass or ceramic ware (6) |
| SCALPEL | A small sharp knife or bistoury gripped in the fingertip, palmar or pencil manner and used for crafts, dissection, stencilling or surgery (7) |
