| CRAFT | Word that can follow needle or air |
| GATE | Northern dialect for a path, street or way; a wicket or other hinged barrier in a fence, hedge or wall; a portal; a hole or aperture, such as the eye of a needle; or, a mountain pass (4) |
| LEAF | Photosynthetic structure known variously as a blade, bract, cotyledon, frond, needle or pad; or, something foliaceous or thin, such as a sheet of filo pastry, gold, paper or tobacco (4) |
| SPACE | Word before needle or probe |
| DARNING | The act or skill of mending holes in knitted garments, socks etc by interweaving stitches with a needle; or, the articles being repaired (7) |
| EVERGREEN | Type of tree that photosynthesises during the winter ensuring persistently-verdant needles or leaves - pine, yew, juniper, fir or cypress, for example (9) |
| DIRK | Stabbed, finally, with needle or small dagger (4) |
| JABBER | One giving needle or gas? |
| EYE | Needle or lace hole (3) |
| VEX | Needle or nettle |
| TEASE | Needle or rib |
| SHARP | Long slender sewing needle; or, a swindler at card games (5) |
| ICON | Seattle's Space Needle or St. Louis's Gateway Arch |
| ANNOY | Needle or nettle |
| YUCCA | Adam's needle or Spanish bayonet (5) |
| POLARIS | Marine navigation instrument resembling a compass but with no magnetic needle; or, name of a mega yacht designed by Tim Heywood (7) |
| TOWER | Structure such as the Shard, Gherkin, Space Needle or Long Ta (5) |
| ACU | With a needle or pin, eg ornatrix...quae ... / ... bracchia figit ____, Ovid Ars Am. 3.239-40 |
| EYES | Markings on a peacock's tail feathers; holes in needles; or, the calm regions at the centre of hurricanes or storms (4) |
| KNIT | A fabric or garment made by means of interlocking loops of wool with long needles or a machine (4) |
