| TELEXED | Sent a wire |
| CABLED | Sent a wire |
| STRING | Cord of an archery bow; a "wire" of a violin; fibrous strip of a runner bean; or, a series of linked sausages (6) |
| HAMMERTHROW | Sport involving the hurling of a metal ball attached to a wire. The handle at the end of the wire opposite from the ball is gripped and then released after three or four body turns have developed maxi |
| CABLE | Chain or rope for hauling a ship's anchor; or, a wire/bundle of insulated wires in a protective casing (5) |
| ARMATURE | Word for panoply; an iron keeper placed in contact with the poles of a magnet to preserve its power; or, a wire-wound core of a dynamo (8) |
| TELEGRAM | Message sent along a wire (8) |
| WEARISOME | Trying to send a wire to a few (9) |
| WELSH | --- terrier, a wire-haired breed of terrier with a black-and-tan coat (5) |
| GAUGE | Diameter of a wire; or, the distance between rails forming a railway track (5) |
| HAMMER | Ball on a wire whirled around the head before being released in a sporting event (6) |
| COOP | Eg a wire support for a tunnel cloche (4) |
| ACTIONABLE | A wire carrying a great deal, including electric current, leading to lawsuit? |
| MOULD | Matrix used in casting; a wire tray used in the process of making paper by hand; or, a container in which to set blancmange, jelly or mousse (5) |
| WHISK | A wire utensil, originally a bunch of twigs, for beating eggs etc (5) |
| FUSE | Electric circuit breaker containing a wire that melts when current exceeds a set magnitude (4) |
| LEAD | A wire that connects two points of a circuit (4) |
| WISTERIA | Fiddle with a wire, it's for a climbing plant (8) |
| SNARED | As a small animal might be by a wire noose (6) |
| WILTON | Carpet with a cut-loop pile made on a wire loom (6) |
