| RAMSBOTTOM | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of glove puppet Sooty (10) |
| SWEEP | Canine companion of glove puppet Sooty |
| BOA | Feathery scarf that shares its name with a snake |
| MARIONETTE | Terminate proceedings about the middle of glove puppet (10) |
| PAIR | A brace of pheasants, couple of lovers, distich of lines, duo of rowers, duet of singers, dyad of gloves, flight of stairs, yoke of oxen or other two of a kind or twinset of equal things (4) |
| BASILBRUSH | Glove puppet designed by Peter Firmin in 1973 (5,5) |
| OLDHAM | Town in Greater Manchester that is the birthplace of physicist Brian Cox (6) |
| STOCKPORT | Town in Greater Manchester that was once the centre of the country's hatting industry (9) |
| BURY | Market town in Greater Manchester that was the birthplace of Prime Minister Robert Peel (4) |
| WENTLETRAP | Moved left, getting end of glove to catch - it's shelled |
| BASILBRUCH | Glove puppet whose catchphrase is 'Boom boom' (5,5) |
| KILT | Canine companion of the glove puppet Sooty (5) |
| WIGAN | Town in Greater Manchester that houses the monument Mab's Cross (5) |
| TRAFFORD | ____ Centre, shopping area in Greater Manchester that opened in 1998 (8) |
| SALE | Town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, that is historically part of Cheshire (4) |
| HARRYCORBETT | English puppeteer and magician, creator of the glove puppet Sooty (5,7) |
| ISOTONE | One of a related set of atoms, or with a letter added to the end, a brand of gloves |
| SCAMPI | Cousin of the puppet Sooty who has a fishy-sounding name (6) |
| KID | Sort of glove, a sort that has no name |
| MITTEN | A kind of glove with one undivided section covering the fingers and one the thumb (6) |
