| CHAPARRAL | A thicket of dense brushwood (9) |
| COPPICE | Thicket of dense trees and shrubs (7) |
| COPSE | A thicket of bushes or small group of trees (5) |
| BRAMBLIEST | Least passable, as a thicket of shrubs |
| CANEBRAKE | Able to escape finally and stop at the thicket of bamboo (9) |
| HEAVYOILS | Forms of dense hydrocarbons derived from petroleum, coal tar, etc |
| SCRUBLAND | Brushwood (9) |
| COVER | Jacket of a book; the top sheet, blanket or quilt of a bed; a place setting at a restaurant table/formal dinner; or, a thicket used as a shelter by game (5) |
| CRUMP | Versatile word, related to "heap of hay", for various inherently dense things, including a clod of earth, clot of blood, dull thud, extra sole on a shoe, heavy tread, mass of ferns/flowers, thicket of |
| BRUSH | A besom; a brief encounter; a fox's tail; a graze; or, a thicket (5) |
| SCRUB | Word for a hard scour of one's face or floor; a worn-out broom; exfoliant; a calling-off; a stunted tree, hence anything undersized; brushwood; or, a drudge, meanie or small person (5) |
| CORPSE | Human remains... right in a dense thicket of trees? (6) |
| THICKE | Actor Alan whose last name is a homophone of a synonym of "dense" |
| WIER | Dam across a river to control the water level upstream; or, a V-shaped barrier of wattle hurdles or brushwood bundles as a primitive type of stationary fish trap (4) |
| BRI | Group name for a number of thorny plants that form a thicket! (3,3) |
| ARS | Group name for a number of thorny plants that form a thicket! (3,3 making 6) |
| NEBULAE | Unable to disperse last of dense clouds of dust (7) |
| GOTHIC | Energy supplied by a lot of dense Brian symphony (6) |
| RAM | Abraham found one caught in a thicket |
| QUEACHY | Forming a thicket once quarterly every year |
