| PIPECLEANERS | Flexible tufted wire for organ maintenance perhaps? |
| PIPECLEANER | Implement made of flexible, tufted wire |
| CABLE | Wire for wire? (5) |
| STRING | Word originally for a rope/strand of any thickness, later a thin length of twine; the cord of an archery bow; or, a stretched piece of catgut or wire for a cello, guitar, piano or violin (6) |
| BRUSH | An implement with bristles, hair, wire for cleaning, scrubbing, painting |
| MANAGERIAL | Bossy male hack wearing wire for broadcast? (10) |
| PURL | Twisted gold wire for so-called precious gem |
| MESH | Chicken wire, for example |
| INSULATOR | Plastic wire, for example, wound over a central core (9) |
| TELEGRAPH | Wire for great help foolishly (9) |
| HAY | Wire for such fodder? The reverse: it's crazy! (3) |
| CLOTHESLINE | Wire for drying washing (7-4) |
| FENCING | Barbed wire, for one |
| ABET | Cut through barbed wire for, say |
| PERCH | Telephone wire, for a bird |
| COP | Jimmy McNulty of "The Wire," for one |
| DRAMAS | "Breaking Bad" and "The Wire," for example |
| HBODRAMAS | "True Detective" and "The Wire," for two |
| SONGWRITER | Strong wire for rebuilding in Berlin, say? |
| SUTURE | Thread or wire for stitching a wound (6) |
