| COMMUNITYCHEST | Where a thimble might be |
| FINGERTIP | Where a thimble goes (9) |
| NEEDLE | Traditionally bought at a haberdashery, an item forming part of an etui or a sewing basket, used with a thimble and thread; a tool for knitting; or, a leaf of a pine tree (6) |
| ETUI | Place to put a thimble |
| SEWS | Works with a thimble |
| SEW | Work with a thimble |
| MONOPOLY | Board game with a thimble taken |
| TOURS | Sightseeing trips IO Board game with a thimble token |
| DODO | Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| PALM | Sailmaker's equivalent of a tailor's thimble; or, a tree named after the inner surface of the hand due to said plant's leaves being placed in victors' hands in ancient Rome (4) |
| UNREEVE | To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like. (7) |
| TOKEN | Thimble in a Monopoly set, e.g. |
| DRESSMAKER | Professional or hobbyist who might use tailor's chalk, pin cushion, seam unpicker, rotary cutter, thimble ... (10) |
| HUNT | '___the thimble was a party game played at Christmas in Victorian times. (4) |
| HAREBELL | A flower whose other names include 'lady's thimble' (8) |
| BLUEBELL | A cuckoo's boot, fairy flower, lady's nightcap, witch's thimble or wood hyacinth in the genus Hyacinthoides, formerly Endymion (8) |
| CUPULE | From "cask, tub", a botanical word for the small woody thimble- or teabowl-like domed bract holding the smooth oval nut of an acorn (6) |
| OYL | "Thimble Theater" surname |
| BLUTO | "Thimble Theatre" character |
| OLIVEOYL | "Thimble Theatre" character |
