| PLASTERCASTS | Bandages stiffened with a hard covering moulded to the shape of a broken limb (7,5) |
| CAST | A bandage stiffened with plaster of Paris used to protect a broken limb (4) |
| SCALE | What small insect with a hard covering attaches itself to a plant by its mouth? (5) |
| SKINT | Just over half moulded to the body? That's very poor (5) |
| BUCKRAM | Fabric of cotton or linen stiffened with a weak glue (7) |
| STARCHED | Stiffened with a carbohydrate (8) |
| DATE | Palm fruit whose name, meaning "finger", refers to the shape of the plant's leaves; or, any one of the specified days of the month represented on a calendar (4) |
| CURLS | Chocolate "blossoms", eddies of water, twists of lemon zest, wreaths of smoke or other things likened to the shape of ringlets of hair (5) |
| DELTAS | Triangular tracts of fluvial sediment, named for their resemblance to the shape of a Greek letter (6) |
| CRINOLINE | A petticoat stiffened with hoops to support the shape of a woman's dress (9) |
| SPINET | Little harpsichord whose name, which may derive from the Latin for "thorns", refers to the shape of the tiny quills that pluck its strings (6) |
| MESSINA | Sicilian port called Zankle, meaning 'scythe', by the Greeks who founded it, owing to the shape of its harbour (7) |
| TRANSFER | Move across to the shape of a star fern (8) |
| PUPA | Perhaps seal a tiny creature in a hard covering |
| LADYBIRD | Loser to "The Shape of Water" for Best Picture |
| GETOUT | It lost Best Picture to "The Shape of Water" |
| PANELLIST | Piece of glass still moulded to one on the board (9) |
| ENCAGE | Put a hard covering around (6) |
| CRUST | 100 see corrosion as being just a hard covering (5) |
| ENCASE | Put a hard covering around (6) |
