| STITCHER | One who darns a sock, joins fabric with needle and thread, mends wear and tear or embroiders a smock (8) |
| HOLEINONE | Why mother darns a sock? |
| OVERSEW | Join fabric edges with looping stitches |
| LINEN | Used by the ancient Egyptians and medieval embroiders, a flax textile used in the present day for household textiles and summer clothes (5) |
| SEWS | Embroiders a bit |
| STITCHES | Embroiders, ... a pattern |
| 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) |
| MEND | To darn a sock, fix a door or perhaps cobble a shoe, as advised by a resourceful 1940s domestic slogan about making do (4) |
| SEW | Darn a sock or reattach a button, for example |
| CREWEL | Twisted worsted yarn used to embroider a fancy scene, perhaps one depicting the barbarous, brutal, callous, fiendish or twistedly mean (6) |
| CHEMISE | A slip or elongated camisole; or, historically, a smock (7) |
| PYTHON | Heydon was used for filming the classic Monty ... sketch, The Idiot in Society, where John ... dressed in a smock and fell backwards into the churchyard (6 and 6) |
| CLEESE | Heydon was used for filming the classic Monty ... sketch, The Idiot in Society, where John ... dressed in a smock and fell backwards into the churchyard (6 and 6) |
| GETASHIFTON | To change into a smock, one had to speed things up (3,1,5,2) |
| HOLE | Reason to darn a sock |
| PINAFORE | Have to use a pin at the end, for designing a smock (8) |
| WORE | Rocked, like a smock or Crocs |
| HANDSTITCH | Manually embroider a ditch that hasn't been dug out (4,6) |
| EMBELLISHER | One who embroiders |
| LIAR | One who embroiders to excess |
