| COMOSE | Bearing a tuft of soft hairs |
| FUR | The thick coat of soft hair that covers the skin of a beaver etc (3) |
| VILLI | Long soft hairs (5) |
| WISP | A small broom; a twisted bunch as a torch; a bundle of hay/straw; a flock of snipe; or, something delicate, such as a streak of smoke or a tuft of hair (4) |
| TOGA | From "hair of the head", word for a tuft of a seed or pineapple; a leafy crown of a palm; or, the nebulous envelope of the head of a "long-haired star" (4) |
| TASSEL | Word for a clasp or fibula first, now a pendant ornament consisting of a tuft of threads secured by a knob/knot (6) |
| FLOCK | A company of birds or sheep; a congregation; or, a tuft of wool (5) |
| GOATEE | What kind of beard consists of a tuft of hair on the chin? (6) |
| FETLOCK | Part of a horse's leg where a tuft of hair grows above the hoof (7) |
| BEARDEDTIT | A small, long-tailed bird in which the male has a tuft of black feathers on each side of its face (7,3) |
| CREST | What is a tuft of feathers on the head of a bird? (5) |
| FLINTLOCK | Piece of fluff seen in a tuft of wool (9) |
| AIGRETTE | What is a tuft of feathers arranged as a head ornament (8) |
| ETAERIO | From "association", botanical Latin for the aggregate achenes, drupels or fruitlets forming a blackberry, custard apple, fraise, rasp or a tuft of old man's beard from the traveller's joy (7) |
| PINEAPPLE | Fruit with a tuft of stiff leaves (9) |
| TASSELLED | Ornamented with a tuft of hanging threads |
| CHARLOCK | Singe a tuft of hair, it's growing wild (8) |
| LOCK | Hold a tuft of wool |
| DALLOP | A tuft of grass or weeds (6) |
| QUIFF | A tuft of hair turned up over the forehead (5) |
