| THREEDECKER | Anything having three layers or tiers, such as a bed, ship etc (5-6) |
| CANOPY | A cover such as a bed's tester, a cockpit's transparent enclosure, a forest's collective tree crowns or a parachute's overhead fabric dome (6) |
| BEING | A living _: anything having life or existence? |
| ILLBEBOUND | Laid up in bed, ship's officer will lose heart for sure |
| CRIB | Word for a wickerwork basket; a manger for fodder; an ox-stall; a cabin or a hovel; a child's bed or a baby's cot; or, a Nativity display or creche with a manger as a bed (4) |
| ALTOCUMULUS | Middle-altitude cloud genus characterised by globular masses or rolls in layers or patches (11) |
| CAMEO | A small low relief sculpture or anaglyph on onyx, sardonyx other stone of two different coloured layers; or, a brief appearance of a distinguished actor in a film or play (5) |
| BANKS | Institutions such as Courts or Hoaxes; or, tiers of oars in galleys (5) |
| LOUNGE | A communal room in a hotel, ship, etc, used for waiting or relaxing in (6) |
| TIERS | Layers or levels of a cake, buildings or gardens etc. (5) |
| DOUBLESTOREY | Describing a building with two floors or tiers (6-6) |
| TRIPLEGLAZING | Three layers of glass in a door or window used to reduce outside noise (6,7) |
| TACKLE | Get to grips with the rigging on a ship, etc (6) |
| NAVIGATOR | A person who directs the course of a ship, etc. (9) |
| BED | A geological layer or stratum of sedimentary rock; bottom of a river or sea; or, a plot for roses (3) |
| CRUSTA | Word for a hard coating, layer or shell, such as the crystallised lip of a sugar-dipped cocktail glass (6) |
| PROFILE | Biographical sketch; a cross-section of Earths crust showing different layers; or, a persons head/fa |
| EQUIP | Fit out (a ship, etc) (5) |
| BALLAST | Heavy material to weigh down and steady a ship, etc. (7) |
| YAW | Side-to-side movement of a plane, ship, etc. (3) |
