| PLUME | Showy feather; a pampas grass flower; a long-legged moth; an aigrette; or, a trail of smoke (5) |
| PALEA | Grass flower bract |
| ARIADNE | Mythological princess who helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with a thread or a trail of glittering jewels (7) |
| SCENT | A hunting term for a dog's faculty of smell that came to mean perfume or any pleasant aroma; or, a trail (5) |
| EGRET | An aigrette |
| FEATHER | An aigrette, penna or other quill traditionally sold by a plumassier; or, anything light, petty or trifling (7) |
| TRACER | A projectile that leaves a trail of smoke (6) |
| BROOCH | From "bodkin, skewer, spit for roasting", an aigrette, fibula, ouch, spray or other ornamental pin (6) |
| RAMUS | Latin word for "branch", thus for a branching of a nerve; a barb of a feather; a process/arm of a bone such as the mandible or pubis; or, a twig (5) |
| STILT | Dialect for a crutch or a plough handle; either of a pair of poles worn to increase one's height; one of a set of posts for raising a building above the water; or, a long-legged wader (5) |
| HELIX | A spiral shape or form, as observed in a trail of ivy or in the "twisted ladder of life" called DNA (5) |
| ROUSE | From a term for a hawk's act of erecting/shaking its feathers, a word used to mean awaken, excite, kindle, provoke, put into action or stir up (5) |
| PIN | From "feather", a word for a point or tip originally, later a peg; a leg; a brooch; a skittle; a pastry flattener; a tack for dressmaking/tailoring; or, a projecting tenon of a dovetail joint (3) |
| EVITA | An early flowering small pampas grass - partly revitalised (5) |
| WHITE | ___ feather, a traditional sign of cowardice (5) |
| TRIAL | The ordeal of a trail of destruction (5) |
| HYENA | A long-legged doglike nocturnal mammal (5) |
| CRANE | A long-legged bird with Frasier, the sitcom psychiatrist (5) |
| HERON | He took Weasley to look at a long-legged bird (5) |
| AWAKE | A trail of light seen if one isn't sleeping (5) |
