| PLUMBLINE | A string with a metal weight at one end used to determine verticality, depth of water, etc |
| PLUMB | A string with a metal weight at one end, _ line (5) |
| COSTS | Is a metal weight softer lead? (5) |
| ACCORD | Harmony from A string with another note held |
| TORCH | A long stick with burning material at one end, used to provide light or to set things on fire (5) |
| STEEVE | Spar with a block at one end, used to stow cotton bales and similar cargo (6) |
| STITCH | What is a tress of detached hair tied at one end, used to supplement natural hair? (6) |
| TASSELS | Tufts of loose threads secured at one end, used to decorate soft furnishings and clothes (7) |
| LINE | String with pegs at each end, used to form a straight guide for taking out a seed drill (4) |
| OAR | Long wooden pole with a broad thin blade at one end used in rowing or steering a boat |
| PEG | A cylindrical pin or bolt of wood or metal tapered at one end used for holding (2) things together |
| TENTPEG | Spike with a hook or hole on the top end, used to hold down rope attached to a shelter (4,3) |
| RAKE | A long-handled tool with prongs at one end used for gathering loose grass, hay, leaves |
| CLOTHESPROP | Long wooden pole with a forked end, used to raise a washing-line (7,4) |
| LASSO | Rope with a noose at one end, used for catching cattle (5) |
| TESTTUBE | A glass cylinder closed at one end used in chemistry and other sciences (4,4) |
| HAND | Measure of four inches used to determine the height of a horse, typically from the ground to the highest point of the withers (4) |
| PLUMBBOBS | From the Latin for "lead", weights of said element or other metal placed at the ends of lines for determining verticality or the depths of water (5,4) |
| RECONSTITUTION | The adding of water etc in the matter of established political norms (14) |
| DUCAT | What 19 chews up at the end used to be spent in Europe (5) |
