| UPHOLSTERED | (Of chairs or seats) having a soft comfortable covering (1 1) |
| TELESMATICAL | Novel metallic seat having a charming quality |
| SLIPPER | A soft, comfortable kind of shoe worn indoors (7) |
| ARMS | Rows of dominoes; limbs used in a form of wrestling performed as a trial of strength; sleeves; branches; sides of chairs; or, octopus tentacles (4) |
| FOOLSCAP | Messes about with the covering - 1 2 paper (8) |
| YFRONTS | Unknown faces, arse-covering (1-6) |
| BACKS | Dorsa resting on the splats of chairs; or, the hard hinds or spines of books, from dictionaries to stories about Styles's mysterious affairs (5) |
| LEGS | Parts of chairs or relay races |
| SLIPPERS | Soft comfortable shoes |
| CLAUSE | Grammatical unit that can be dependent or independent ticellular aquatic animal of the phylum Porifera, having a soft body supported by a porous fibrous skeleton (6) |
| DOEEYED | Having a soft gaze like that of a female deer |
| EXEDRAE | Portico, or arcade with a bench or seats where people may converse. (7) |
| EXEDRA | An ancient Greek or Roman colonnade, passage, portico or other outdoor element with a bench or seat as a place for debate or discussion (6) |
| AGLOW | A terracotta-coloured sempervivum - having a soft light (5) |
| ROWS | Lines of figures or seats, eg (4) |
| ARMREST | Possibly a smarter part of a chair or seat (7) |
| SODA | The party's over - having a soft drink? |
| SWEETON | Having a soft spot for (5,2) |
| SHAKE | Astonish by having a soft drink (5) |
| BACKSEATS | Chairs or benches at the rear of the hall (4,5) |