| PACKS | Bundles borne on the back; beautifying clay or mud treatments; scrums of rugby forwards; or, groups of hunting hounds or wolves (5) |
| PACK | A group or bobbery of hounds; a bundle borne by a sumpter; a bale of wool; forwards in a rugby team; or, cosmetic mud applied to the face (4) |
| FLOCK | One fat-headed rugby forward, or a group |
| FACIAL | Mud treatment, maybe |
| SPA | Mud treatment setting |
| RUCK | Word for a heap, pile or stack of fuel or hay; a multitude or throng; an undistinguished crowd; or, a loose scrum of players around a rugby ball (4) |
| GOLEM | Clay or mud being of Jewish folklore (5) |
| PEL | Clay or mud: Comb. form |
| PELITE | Rock derived from clay or mud |
| SIMONE | - - - Ferrari, Italy tighthead injured in the first scrum of their RWC 2019 pool game against South Africa (6) |
| LOOSE | Misplace nothing inside a scrum of this sort (5) |
| SWAG | A bend or bow; a burglar's bulging bag of booty or boodle; a beautifying botanical band or bays of berries, blooms, bracts or buds; or, a bushman's bedroll or bundle of belongings (4) |
| HOD | What's the portable trough for carrying mortar that's borne on the shoulders? (3) |
| INFLORESCENCE | A group off lowers borne on the same branch or main stalk (13) |
| PALINDROMIC | Of a word or phrase, reading the same forwards or backwards (11) |
| REEFS | Female ruff borne on the wings of finches in shoals (5) |
| SFLOAT | Borne on the surface of a liquid (6) |
| THEWINDOFCHANGE | Macmillan's pervasive influence was borne on the breeze (3,4,2,6) |
| UMBEL | Flower cluster borne on stalks (pedicels) of similar length rising from the apex of an axis, characteristic of the parsley family (5) |
| MAKEUP | Beautifying cosmetics collectively; the result produced thereby; the layout of illustrations, text etc on a page; or, one's nature (4-2) |
