| TIN | Metal used to coat sheets of steel |
| OSMIUM | Name metal used to coat ornaments and note hesitant expression |
| TINPLATE | Sheets of steel coated with another metal, used in retro products by model companies such as Hornby (3,5) |
| TEFLON | Trademark of the polymer used to coat the inside of cooking pans to give a non-stick surface (6) |
| MARZIPAN | Name, derived from a Burmese port once famed for glazed jars used to export candied fruits, confections, preserves and spices, for a sugary almond paste used to coat cakes (8) |
| STUCCO | Kind of cement used to coat exterior walls (6) |
| TERNE | Alloy of lead and tin used to coat auto gas tanks |
| LEAFED | Thumbed through manual indicating another metal could be used to coat iron |
| ICING | Mixture used to coat fondant fancies (5) |
| WAX | It's used to coat a surfboard |
| SHAKER | Salt cellar server vacantly used to coat fish |
| PARGET | Plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys. |
| SESAME | Seed often used to coat bread (6) |
| VERMICELLI | Tiny chocolate strands used to coat kes (10) |
| LINSEED | --- oil, flax-derived substance used to coat cricket bats |
| EMERY | Mineral used to coat nail files (5) |
| PRAGMATIC | Practical film used to coat inferior paper doily |
| EPOXYRESIN | Adhesive pioneers somehow used to coat axes (5,5) |
| TOFFEE | Confection traditionally cracked with a miniature hammer or used to coat red apples; or, nonsense (6) |
| RUST | What used to coat car windshields in Bethlehem, PA before dust filters arrived in the mid 1970s |
