| SNAGS | Pulled threads in tights or knitwear often causing ladders (5) |
| SNAG | Australian "banger"; a drawback; a pulled thread in a jumper/stocking; a short tine; or, a tree stump (4) |
| ARGYLE | Diamond pattern on knitwear. often associated with golf (6) |
| EASER | A bar for slackening threads in a loom; one that eases (5) |
| WICKS | Await cakes losing odd bits of threads in candles (5) |
| WEAVE | Make fabric by enter-lacing long threads in (2) directions |
| FATES | Weavers of life's threads, in Greek myth |
| LATHE | A machine for shaping, boring, cutting a screw thread in metal or wood (5) |
| THEME | Thread in skirt hem entangles (5) |
| TUTSI | Source of thread in suit woven for someone from central Africa? (5) |
| LISLE | Fine cotton thread in large offshore community (5) |
| LADDER | A strip of unravelled fabric in tights or stockings (6) |
| LADDERS | Vertical strips of unravelled fabric in tights or stockings (7) |
| PICOT | A small loop of twisted thread in a lace edging |
| BPLOT | Secondary thread in addition to the main story |
| LEGWEAR | Collective term for the hold-ups, knee-highs, socks, tights or other hosieries donned or fashioned on one's crural limbs or shanks known informally as gams, pegs or pins (7) |
| IMPACT | Word for a collision often causing a dent or a crater, thus for a marked effect or forceful consequence (6) |
| OCD | Condition often causing repetitive behavior, in brief |
| ATHEROMA | A fatty deposit in an artery, often causing an obstruction to the blood flow |
| SQUALL | Sudden, strong wind, often causing a brief storm (6) |
