Possible Clues:

• Linked by extremely short crosspiece
• Threaded, as beads
• Step on to street to get suspended
• High-___ (temperamental)
• The racquet must be like a bell at last
• The racquet gets the saint to have pressed the bell
• Prepared beans - a step on the way
• Like lights on a Christmas tree
• May get up on a ladder at the end of the street
• Grunts (anag) - stretched