| NECKLACE | Slug left hole in one string of pearls perhaps (8) |
| CHOKER | String of pearls, perhaps, suitable to give to French darling (6) |
| PROPER | Decorous publicity about string of pearls, perhaps |
| LAISSE | Girl with tablet penning one string of verses |
| DIVER | Seeker of pearls, perhaps |
| AMMUNITIONDUMP | Place where you might see slugs left behind? (10,4) |
| KIRIBATI | Exotic batik wraps, with one string at the waist in Micronesian island (8) |
| PERSONAL | Own no pearls perhaps (8) |
| EYETEETH | Some pearls, perhaps, available for really desirable swap? |
| UNACORDA | Of a piano piece, to be played with the soft pedal depressed; Italian, 'one string' (3,5) |
| TEARDROP | Pearl, perhaps |
| CIRCUS | Choir clues left hole in big top (6) |
| CLOUTS | Hits and cuts. Left hole in (6) |
| STRAND | A string of pearls or beads; poetic word for a shore; or, one of the two chains forming the double helix of DNA (6) |
| NOSTRIL | New Barking riots left hole under bridge |
| GRATIS | Indian instrument with one string sent back free of charge (6) |
| ALYSSUM | Plant with species including string of pearls and basket of gold, used in rock gardens or to cascade |
| ROPE | Length of twisted yarn with uses including abseiling, mountaineering, seafaring, towing, securing tents or tug-of-war; or, a string of pearls (4) |
| TODD | Sweeney ___, 'the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,' who first appeared in a penny dreadful serial entitled The String of Pearls |
| 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) |
