| NACRES | Mother-of-pearls from jumbled cranes |
| MUSSEL | Freshwater mollusc hat is a source of mother-of-pearls (6) |
| NACRE | Mother-of-pearls (5) |
| ANAGRAM | Word formed from jumbled letters (7) |
| AMEN | Last word from jumbled name |
| SKINDIVER | One gathers pearls from margins of sandbank in river delta, instead of its head (4-5) |
| FOLKWISDOM | Pearls from our elders |
| STRAND | Pearls from somewhere in London |
| NORMANWISDOM | Pearls from Rouen, maybe, for old actor |
| OYSTER | Mollusc with a species that can create a pearl from a grain of sand (6) |
| ADAGE | Pearl from Poor Richard |
| 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) |
| ROPE | Length of twisted yarn with uses including abseiling, mountaineering, seafaring, towing, securing tents or tug-of-war; or, a string of pearls (4) |
| ROPES | Cordage whose figurative showing to learners or novices stems from sailing; or, strands of pearls, strings of onions or cords attached to soaps (5) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| TOOTHACHE | Pain as one of a set of pearls is damaged? |
| AKOYA | Type of oyster cultivated for the production of pearls (5) |
| CURIO | Genus of 'String of Pearls' houseplant - unusual collectable item (5) |
| ALYSSUM | Plant with species including string of pearls and basket of gold, used in rock gardens or to cascade |
