| MOTTO | Phrase accompanying a coat of arms; or, a maxim or scrap of verse in a fortune cookie or paper cracker (5) |
| ADAGE | Fortune in a fortune cookie, often |
| WHIMSY | I paper cracks for what reason? Caprice (6) |
| MORAL | From "custom, manners", word for ethical, good or right; a maxim; or, a lesson drawn from a fable or life (5) |
| INBED | Cheeky words after reading a fortune cookie fortune |
| AXIOM | A maxim, or part of one, about nothing! (5) |
| SHARD | Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle's elytron or wing case |
| FRAGMENT | Small piece or scrap of cloth people wrapped in paper, initially (8) |
| REEL | Frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which a hosepipe can be wound (4) |
| BEARHUG | A hearty embrace with both arms; or, a wrestling "bodylock" clinch (4,3) |
| CHAIR | Inanimate object with a back, legs and often arms; or, a professorship (5) |
| BIT | From Old English for "mouthful", a crumb, morsel or scrap; a bridle's snaffle or other metal mouthpiece; any small coin or piece; an awl for a brace or a drill; or, a brief space of time (3) |
| PORTCULLIS | Type of medieval gate in the form of a latticed grille depicted on the coat of arms or logo of the U |
| STANZA | Similar to a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song, a xed number of lines forming the building block of a poem (6) |
| VERT | Latin-derived "green" of France, heraldic coats of arms or Old English forestry law; or, a ramp or half-pipe's near 90-degree ascent for a skater or boarder's aerial launches (4) |
| RAGRUGS | Floor coverings or mats made from a veritable patchwork of torn strips of fabric or scraps of old cloth (3,4) |
| EXLIBRIS | From the Latin meaning "from the library of", a book with a bookplate carrying the owner's name and often their coat of arms or crest (2-6) |
| SHIELD | Escutcheon of a coat of arms; or, an item used to symbolise the constellation Scutum (6) |
| RAGDOLL | A toy, also called a moppet, that is typically homemade from remnants or scraps of cloth; or, as one word, a luxuriantly coated blue-eyed cat (3,4) |
| CRESTED | Embroidered with a coat of arms or an emblem; tufted like a cockscomb (7) |
