| ALBS | A plural weight measure for long white gowns |
| KMS | Measures for long-distance runners: Abbr. |
| DEBS | Wearers of white gowns and gloves, for short |
| BRIDAL | Like many white gowns |
| CARAT | Weight measure for a diamond |
| KG | Weight measure, for short |
| KILOS | Weight measures, for short |
| TONS | Weight measures for whales |
| AGNEW | Lady- of Lochnaw, portrait by John Singer Sargent in which the sitter wears a white gown with a lilac sash (5) |
| GONEWITHTHEWIND | White gown I'd then altered for film (4,4,3,4) |
| SURPLICE | White gown worn over a cassock (8) |
| IDES | In the ancient Roman calendar, a plural noun for a day near the middle of a month |
| PEA | In a pod, mushed, used to make soup or blown out of a toy shooter, it is a small spherical green seed or pulse whose name in question was once thought to be a plural's singular (3) |
| MASSNOUN | Grammar term for a noun that doesn't have a plural |
| LEIA | White-gown-wearing princess |
| IRS | AcrossApril 15 org., or, as a plural, a hint to four long puzzle answers |
| DREG | Word for "residue" that's more commonly a plural |
| BCS | Recently retired NCAA football ranking system, and, as a plural, a hint to the answers to starred cl |
| OMEN | Singular noun that, when a "w" is added to the front, becomes a plural noun |
| FUNGI | A plural of fungus (5) |
