| HOOK | Sickle; anchor; catchy chorus; crochet tool; or, a finesse in bridge (4) |
| SPARTAN | Simple finesse in bridge (7) |
| SIDESPIN | Team supported by country lacking a finesse with the ball? (8) |
| HOOKS | Crochet tools |
| ROLL | A cylinder of gift-wrap or other paper; a strip of cloth or leather with pockets for paintbrushes, pencils, sewing kits or tools; or, a type of brass gilding wheel used in bookbinding (4) |
| GANG | Word for a set of people or things which go together, such as a ship's crew; a group of labourers, sockets or tools; or, a band of children, criminals or delinquents (4) |
| GOON | A tool, or a thug hired to commit acts of violence or intimidation (4) |
| KNAP | What is to shape a stone by striking it, to make a tool or a flat stone for building walls? (4) |
| ADZE | Get this tool or a dozen maybe on leaving (4) |
| HOES | Garden tools, or a homophone of a garden tool |
| TACT | Finesse in phrasing |
| POST | System of mail delivery; another word for a job; or, the vertical part of a crochet stitch (4) |
| ROWS | Lines of stitches in knitting or crochet (4) |
| AUGER | A plumber's snake; a gimlet, wimble or other boring tool; or, a sea snail in the genus Terebra with a drill bit-like tapering spiral shell (5) |
| WOOL | Yarn spun from the fleeces of sheep, goats or alpacas, used for knitting, weaving, tapestry or crochet (4) |
| UNCI | Learning centre preserves earliest of crochet hooks (4) |
| ARTEFACT | Something made or given shape by a human, such as a tool or a work of art (8) |
| DELICACY | Diplomatic finesse in a tricky situation is a treat (8) |
| LACE | Crochet |
| LOOP | Crochet unit |
