| SNOWYOWLS | Arctic raptors named for their niveous white plumage (5,4) |
| 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 |
| BLACKFOOT | Prairie tribe named for their dark moccasins |
| AMBERALES | Beers named for their reddish-gold color |
| BLUEBELLS | Flowers named for their color |
| ANTEATERS | Predators named for their prey |
| REDALDERS | Trees of the Pacific Northwest named for their rusty bark color |
| HONEYDEWS | Melons named for their golden-yellow color |
| PITVIPERS | Venomous snakes named for their heat sensing organs |
| MIDINETTE | Roughly meaning "light noon meal", a historical modiste or assistant in a Parisian couture house, named for their short break taken at lunchtime (9) |
| CARROT | Umbelliferous root used as the nose of a niveous humanoid figure with stones/coal for ocular lamps (6) |
| SNOWIER | More niveous |
| SNOWIEST | Most niveous |
| 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) |
| SNOWY | Niveous |
| SNOW | Emulated in ornamental glass globes, cold niveous precipitation forming blankets of crystals through which "milk flowers", esteemed by galanthophiles, emerge in winter (4) |
| 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) |
| SNOWFALL | A flurry or blizzard of ice flakes; or, the amount of niveous powder that has dropped in a given time (8) |
| SNOWTYRE | A pneumatic wheel-covering with deep treads, giving extra traction in frosty, icy or niveous conditions (4,4) |
| BEES | Busy people, competitions for spelling or gatherings for quilting/sewing, all named for their resemblance to industrious sociable buzzing or humming honey-making hymenopterans of the same name (4) |
