| COUNTRYCOUSIN | Person in overalls sucking a piece of straw, stereotypically |
| AWN | A piece of straw, not a piece of barley |
| PEDALS | Word for the lower thicker parts of pieces of straw; plaits made of these; or, levers whose name, from "feet", indicates the extremities employed to operate them (6) |
| WISP | Piece of straw is perhaps thus described (4) |
| STRAW | Thin hollow paper or plastic tube for sucking a drink from a glass |
| DUNGAREES | Muck found on a prophet turning up in overalls (9) |
| CHINO | Material in patch in overalls |
| VERA | Crime drama set in the north-east with Brenda Blethyn in overalls (4) |
| EDSEL | Car whose grille "resembled an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon," according to a 1959 Time article |
| MEERSCHAUM | Note written by Queen's friend sucking a pipe |
| IMITATION | I finally strongarm Italian suspect into sucking a dummy |
| MARIO | Iconic video game character in overalls |
| EDISON | Who said "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work |
| DENIM | It's in overalls |
| WHISK | A knot of rope fibres or a bundle of straw as a brush; or, a kitchen utensil used when making a roux, souffle, meringue or omelette (5) |
| PALLET | Word, derived from that of an artist's board for mixing colours, for a flat wooden blade for shaping clay; a mattress of straw; or, a platform moved with a fork-lift truck (6) |
| SKEP | From Old Norse for "bushel of grain", a word for a basket or hamper of wickerwork originally, later a beehive of straw (4) |
| TATAMI | Type of straw matting used as a floor covering in a Japanese home (6) |
| RUCHE | A flounce, frill or ruffle whose name derives from "tree bark" or from "beehive", latterly in allusion to the plaits of straw used to make a skep (5) |
| TRICKY | Thorny pile of straw in the outskirts of Tewkesbury |
