| CROCHETS | Stitches with hooks (8) |
| DOUBLEUP | Be in stitches (with laughter) (6,2) |
| WAITABIT | Plant with hooks to hang on |
| GRAPPLES | Wrestles with hooks |
| ADABHAND | Very good at offering bill to sailor with hook locally (1,3,4) |
| SANDTRAP | Son with hook, a hazard on the links (4,4) |
| SEWN | Mended using stitches, with 'up' |
| SEW | Make stitches with needle and thread |
| NEEDLE | You can make stitches with it |
| SPIDER | Meaning "to spin", a silk- and web-creating arachnid; an "octopus" set of bungees with hooks; an iron skillet with feet; or, a snooker aid (6) |
| CROCHET | Handiwork created by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle (7) |
| LAUGHINGGAS | In stitches, with something really amusing - it'll knock you out |
| EMBROIDERER | May she have us in stitches with her fanciful exaggerations? |
| SEWINGMACHINE | Mechanising, we could have you in stitches with this (6,7) |
| DARNING | The act or skill of mending holes in knitted garments, socks etc by interweaving stitches with a needle; or, the articles being repaired (7) |
| FUTURE | Female has row of stitches with section missing in time ahead (6) |
| ONSLAUGHT | Lots are in stitches with tons delayed in fierce attack |
| DARN | Word, from "conceal, hide", for a patch of cloth mended by means of interweaving stitches with a long needle to which a dragonfly is likened (4) |
| ANGLE | Fish with hooks and lines (5) |
| ANGLERS | Those who fish with hooks and lines (7) |
