| SNOWTYRE | A pneumatic wheel-covering with deep treads, giving extra traction in frosty, icy or niveous conditions (4,4) |
| LEPROSY | Missionary Father Damien devoted his life to a colony on Molokai Island for people with this conditi |
| TYRE | Pneumatic wheel-covering (4) |
| SIXWHEELER | Where lies circulating around famous Downing Street figure, might this have extra traction? (3-7) |
| NONSLIP | Offering extra traction |
| SCENE | A division of a play; the decoration of a theatre stage; a stormy encounter or frosty incident; or, a niveous panorama, polar paysage or any other such landscape or winterscape (5) |
| WREATH | Circlet of seasonal winter greenery placed on a door or a table during the festive season; a niveous drift formed in a blizzard; or, a curl of smoke or cloud (6) |
| BEAD | One of a series of items strung to form a necklace or a rosary; or, the edge of a pneumatic tyre that grips a wheel when inflated (4) |
| SIPES | Grooves in tyre treads to improve grip and traction in wet or icy conditions, also found on the soles of boat shoes (5) |
| SNOWFLAKE | Any one of a flurry or blizzard of dainty white frozen hexagonally symmetrical crystals of "glace" thus, an Arctic bunting forming a swirling drift-like flock; or, a Galanthus-like St Agnes' flower, a |
| SNOWFALL | A flurry or blizzard of ice flakes; or, the amount of niveous powder that has dropped in a given time (8) |
| DUNLOP | A traditional Ayrshire cheese; or, the surname of a Scottish vet who invented a pneumatic tyre (6) |
| CUBE | A six-sided icy or sugary solid; a pipped die (4) |
| CARROT | Umbelliferous root used as the nose of a niveous humanoid figure with stones/coal for ocular lamps (6) |
| STYE | Bacterial infection of the eyelash or eyelid, found in frosty Essex! (4) |
| JACKHAMMER | The sailor could drive a nail as it's a pneumatic drill (10) |
| ATTIRE | Covering for a wheel covering, so to speak (6) |
| SALTED | Treated for traction, in a way |
| PUNITIVEDAMAGES | After pressure I'm savage with United, wrongly giving extra penalty |
| HYDROPLANES | Loses traction, in a way |
