| CULTURED | Type of pearls (8) |
| DIVERTED | Amused seeker of pearls with Mr. Rogers (8) |
| NECKLACE | String of pearls, for example (8) |
| UNSTRUNG | (Of pearls or beads) yet to be linked together (8) |
| STRING | Word for a filing cord, hypothetical thread of matter, rope of pearls, strip of "silly" aerosol foam, tough fibre of a French bean, twanging wire of catgut or other line, filament, strand or twine (6) |
| AKOYA | Type of oyster cultivated for the production of pearls (5) |
| ROPE | Length of twisted yarn with uses including abseiling, mountaineering, seafaring, towing, securing tents or tug-of-war; or, a string of pearls (4) |
| STRAND | A string of pearls or beads; poetic word for a shore; or, one of the two chains forming the double helix of DNA (6) |
| SWEENEY | Titular protagonist of the 1847 play The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street by English dramatist George Dibdin Pitt (7,4) |
| TODD | Titular protagonist of the 1847 play The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street by English dramatist George Dibdin Pitt (7,4) |
| ALYSSUM | Plant with species including string of pearls and basket of gold, used in rock gardens or to cascade |
| TOOTHACHE | Pain as one of a set of pearls is damaged? |
| ROPES | Groups of interconnected climbers/ mountaineers; or, strings of pearls (5) |
| MUSSEL | Freshwater mollusc hat is a source of mother-of-pearls (6) |
| ORION | Prominent constellation whose asterism of three stars includes Alnilam the "string of pearls" (5) |
| CURIO | Genus of 'String of Pearls' houseplant - unusual collectable item (5) |
| HYDERABAD | Indian 'City of Pearls' on nameplate of LMR 'Jub' 45585 (9) |
| GLENN | "String of Pearls" bandleader Miller |
| SAGO | Starch sold in the form of pearls |
| OYSTERS | Sources of pearls |
