| FLECK | A spot or streak, as in a tweed material, for example (5) |
| VEIN | Streak, as in marble |
| WOOL | Tweed material |
| WOOD | Cedar or oak building material for example |
| STEPIN | Take action to secure material, for example, after set collapsed (4,2) |
| PATCH | Leather adornment on a tweed jacket, perhaps |
| ZIT | Slang word for a spot or pimple (3) |
| MOLE | A spot or elevation on the skin (4) |
| BLOT | A spot or stain of ink (4) |
| AVERAGES | Show a real mean streak as regards sporting statistics (8) |
| WAKINGTHEDEAD | Had a tweed design, keeping monarch for crime series (6,3,4) |
| STATIONERY | Writing materials, for example, got from place where trains stop on Eastern Railway |
| TILL | Flotilla includes a Tweed tributary! (4) |
| WISP | Thin streak, as of smoke |
| SMEAR | From "butter, fat, grease, ointment", a smudge, splodge, splotch or streak of such substance; or, a slur or slanderous attack (5) |
| WISPS | Word for flocks of snipe; friars' lanterns; petite girls/slight boys; twists of hay or straw; small brooms; strands or streaks of hair or smoke; or, tufts (5) |
| VEINS | Vessels studied in phlebology; or, streaks in cheese, marble or wood (5) |
| TABBY | Type of cat marked with spots or streaks (5) |
| GROUP | A ___ of tigers are known as an ambush or streak |
| TIGER | One of an ambush or streak of pantherine felines that are extremely fierce, thus described as "paper" when referring to an ineffectual "toothless" threat (5) |
