| STITCHED | Made use of the needle for which on Sunday last addict craved |
| EELS | No end to the needles for the long swimmers (4) |
| SAT | Made use of the sofa |
| MEDLEYRELAY | In which, on the surface, one starts on the back and another ends on the front |
| ACORN | Fruit of the oak tree, the most common of which on Mallorca is the Holm oak (5) |
| LEADING | --- leg, part of a stitch closest to the tip of the needle (7) |
| VERSAILLESCONFERENCE | What other name is given to the Paris Peace Conference at which, on the conclusion of World War I, p |
| HORMONE | Internal secretion which, on reaching some part of the body, exercises a specific physiological action (7) |
| PLEAD | Ask that only the end of the needle be stuck in a cushion (5) |
| MINCEPIES | Festive dried fruit, spice and pastry confections that were traditionally savoury; the eating of which on Christmas Day, according to a myth about Oliver Cromwell, is illegal (5,4) |
| LOUVRE | French Royal palace which, on the one-year anniversary of Louis XVI’s death, opened as a museum |
| PRIMARY | Those colours which on being mixed in proper proportions give the other colours (7) |
| OSUMGAME | Situation in which, on the whole, nothing can be gained or lost |
| THREADSNAKE | Sweet little snake that looks like a worm. Won't be threaded through the eye of the needle. Harmless. (6,5) |
| LOSTINTHESTACKS | I couldn't borrow 'Eye of the Needle' because it was... |
| EYECATCHING | Attractive - like part of the needle getting stuck? (3,8) |
| PEDALO | In which, on seaside holiday, some sped along? (6) |
| COMPASS | Device with a magnetised needle for determining direction; or, the range of notes of a voice or a musical instrument (7) |
| KEN | "Eye of the Needle" author Follett |
| EYE | ___ of the Needle |
