| HONITON | Town famous for lacemaking (7) |
| BOBBINS | Spools for lacemaking or sewing machines; shuttles for weaving; narrow braids, cords and other such passementerie; or, bars on strings for raising door latches (7) |
| ALENCON | One clan coming from lacemaking town (7) |
| MECHELEN | Flemish city noted for lacemaking and vegetable markets whose inhabitants are traditionally called moon-extinguishers (8) |
| MEISSEN | German town famous for its porcelain (7) |
| APPLEBY | Cumbrian town famous for its annual horse fair (7) |
| MOWBRAY | Melton _, English town famous for pork pies (7) |
| HAMELIN | German town famous for the legend of the Pied Piper (7) |
| ALMADEN | Spanish town famous for mercury deposits |
| TIVERTON | Market town in mid Devon noted for its lacemaking industry (8) |
| TIE | Neck accessory, sometimes with school or club colours; another word for a bride in lacemaking; a slur-like symbol in musical notation; or, equality in score or votes (3) |
| TEXTILES | Fabrics created by means of braiding, felting, knitting, lacemaking, plaiting, tufting or weaving; or, the fibres or yarns used for thus (8) |
| LINEN | Cloth or thread woven or spun from flax, traditionally used for household textiles or lacemaking (5) |
| ANNE | A queen of the Stuart dynasty whose skill in lacemaking, or lace itself, is said to have inspired one of the names for cow-parsley (4) |
| TAT | Work at lacemaking |
| RESEAU | Fine-net ground used in lacemaking (6) |
| TATTLING | Carrying yarns left in lacemaking |
| TATTED | Worked at lacemaking |
| DIGBY | Look for clams near town famous for its scallops (5) |
| ASTI | Town famous for wine heads all similar town's image (4) |