| COCOZELLE | Name, from "cocoon" or "little bag", for soft floss silk or thread with which to embroider a fine garment, handkerchief, linen or even a rag (9) |
| SKEIN | Loosely-wound length of yarn or thread with a central pull strand rather than a supporting core (5) |
| CREWEL | Twisted worsted yarn used to embroider a fancy scene, perhaps one depicting the barbarous, brutal, callous, fiendish or twistedly mean (6) |
| PUPA | Insect in a cocoon or chrysalis, e.g. |
| LUCYSTEELE | Clue (not the first) about little bag for slippery creature who became Mrs Ferrars (4,6) |
| COO | A sound you would hear coming from cocoon - hardly! (3) |
| ISOLATE | Eats oil from cocoon (7) |
| HANDSTITCH | Manually embroider a ditch that hasn't been dug out (4,6) |
| TREHALA | Edible sugary substance from cocoons of Asian beetles (7) |
| RAWSILK | Material obtained from cocoons |
| LAP | A single turn of rope or thread around a drum, reel or other coiled object; a circuit of a racetrack; the forepart of a skirt and/or the body, from waist to knees; thin liquid food for a dog; an earlo |
| STITCHER | One who darns a sock, joins fabric with needle and thread, mends wear and tear or embroiders a smock (8) |
| ARIADNE | Character in Greek mythology who gave Theseus the thread with which he found his way out of the labyrinth |
| BULSE | A little bag or purse for diamonds, gold dust or "sparks" (5) |
| SATCHEL | From "little bag", a leather example of such a case, for school books (7) |
| LEITMOTIF | Omit tile to embroider with fine thread |
| TUFT | A bunch of feathers or threads; a clump of trees; a goatee beard; a grassy tussock; or, the historical gold tassel on an Oxbridge nobleman's cap, hence a titled undergraduate (4) |
| LINEN | Cloth or thread woven or spun from flax, traditionally used for household textiles or lacemaking (5) |
| SACHET | A little bag produced from a chest (6) |
| DERONDA | Name for one to embroider on Daniel's shirt (7) |
