| FEATHER | As light as a ___, saying (7) |
| ANGEL | 'I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an ___' (A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens) (5) |
| QUILL | Old pen that's as light as a feather? (5) |
| WEIGHTLESS | As light as a feather |
| SIMILES | "Light as a feather" and "stiff as a board" |
| GRUYERE | Whether in a puff pastry tart with asparagus and peas or in one's croque-monsieur, fondue, French onion soup or gougeres as light as the breeze, this nutty sweet tangy Swiss or alpine-style cheese is |
| FAIRISH | Sorta light, as a complexion |
| POUND | In for a penny, in for a ___, saying (5) |
| BULL | It's like a red rag to a ___, saying (4) |
| THIEVES | As thick as ___, saying (7) |
| THORN | Every rose has a ___, saying (5) |
| KNIFE | You could have cut the atmosphere with a ___, saying (5) |
| RIGHT | Two wrongs don't make a ___, saying (5) |
| ENEMIES | With friends like these, who needs ___, saying (7) |
| FLOWERS | April showers bring May ___, saying (7) |
| LONGEST | He who laughs last, laughs ___, saying (7) |
| GREENER | The grass is always ___... saying (7) |
| TOTREAD | Fools rush in where angels fear ___, saying (2,5) |
| OTTO | Forename of the air-pump inventor who believed Earth was as light as a feather and demonstrated that his copper Magdeburg hemispheres could create such a vacuum that 16 horses could not pull them apar |
| STIFF | Light as a leather, ___ as a board |
