| MESH | Pattern of wire or netting |
| HAMMOCK | Piece of strong cloth or netting hung between two supports and used as a bed (7) |
| GAUGE | Distance between the rails of a railway track; the diameter of wire; or, the thickness of sheet metal (5) |
| SIEVING | Using a device consisting of wire or plastic mesh held in a frame, for (in gardening) separating coarser from finer particles, such as soil or compost (7) |
| CAGES | Enclosures of wire or metal bars (5) |
| CABLE | Thick rope of wire or hemp |
| FENCE | Barrier, usually of wire or wood (5) |
| CAGE | Enclosure of wire or metal bars (4) |
| STYLET | Piece of wire or plastic put into a catheter to clear it (6) |
| TRANSMISSION | A type of wire or line that carries radio waves from the radio transmitter to the antenna. (12) |
| SPIRALBOUND | Held together with a curl of wire or plastic (book, leaflet etc) (6-5) |
| STRANDS | Lengths of pearls, beads, wool, yarn or wire; or, beaches or shorelines (7) |
| TELEGRAPH | Any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance, or the device for transmitting printed information by wire or radio wave. (9) |
| PLOTDEVICE | Red herring or love triangle ... or handshovel, hidden wire or protractor? |
| PAPERCLIP | A wire or plastic fastener for holding sheets or pages together (5-4) |
| BARBED | Like some wire or rod attached to piece of furniture |
| ROPE | A stout cord made by twisting together strands of hemp, siral, flax, cotton, nylon, wire or similar material |
| STABILES | Immovable abstract art constructions of wood, wire or metal (8) |
| FILAMENT | A conducting wire or thread forming part of an electric bulb (8) |
| COILS | From the Latin for "collect, gather together", a word for spirals, helices or twists, such as those observed in incense, ropes, snakes, springs or wires; or, figurative entanglements, hubbubs, perplex |