| PIECEDERESISTANCE | Most important feature |
| ESSENCE | Most important feature |
| BEALLANDENDALL | Most important feature (2-3,3,3-3) |
| BEALLAND | Craft enabled landfall short of France, the ultimate target (2-3,3,3-3) |
| MANE | Reportedly most important feature of lion |
| REIGN | Be most important feature during period of rule (5) |
| ALUMINUMSIDING | Exterior housing feature: 2 wds. |
| ALPHAANDOMEGA | Most important features of a man a gal hoped to change (5,3,5) |
| THEINCREDIBLES | Pixar film about a family of superheroes that won the 2005 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: 2 wds. |
| JAWJAWNOTWARWAR | Paraphrase of a line in a speech in 1954 by Winston Churchill (3-3,3,3-3) |
| PEEWEE | 1988 film comedy starring Paul Reubens (3,3,3-3) |
| BIGTOP | 1988 film comedy starring Paul Reubens (3,3,3-3) |
| NOWYOUSEE | Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Ruffalo sequel, ___ Me 2 (3,3,3) |
| BIGWHEEL | One very important feature of fairground (3,5) |
| DAM | Important feature of a reservoir (3) |
| LIGHT | Important feature now in living rooms and kitchens |
| CENTREPIECE | Hippie cells will have this important feature (11) |
| JAWLINE | Important feature for a male model |
| GRIP | Important feature of a tyre (4) |
| CORNERSTONE | Important feature on which something is based |