| DAHLIA | Cactus or pompom flower |
| CHOLLA | Cactus or pompom flower (6) |
| SHAKO | Tall military cap with a plume or pompom (5) |
| PRICKLE | Group of hedgehogs or porcupines; or, another word for a thorn of a rose stem, cactus or thistle, for example (7) |
| SUCCULENT | Plant such as the cactus or agave that grows in arid conditions, using its fleshy stem or leaves to |
| TORCH | Wind-up- or battery-powered flashlight; blowlamp; tall cactus; or, a glowing mullein inflorescence (5) |
| SABRA | Native Israeli person, cactus, or liqueur |
| SPINY | Like a cactus or a porcupine |
| RATTAIL | Kind of cactus or comb |
| PEYOTE | Mexican cactus, or the drug made from it |
| PLANT | Cactus or bamboo e.g. |
| SPIKY | Like a cactus or hedgehog, e.g. |
| SPINELESS | A smooth succulent, it could be said, is a ___ cactus. Or just lacking in courage! (9) |
| BOBBLE | Word for the oscillating motion of disturbed water or of a floating cork; a pill on the surface of cloth; a pompom for a woolly hat; a tie for a ponytail; or, a bungle, fluff, fudge or fumble (6) |
| TOORIE | Derived from the Scottish meaning "small tower", a word for the bobble, pompom, tassel or tuft on a bonnet or Tam o' Shanter (6) |
| CATS | Stealthy clowder-, clutter- or pounce-forming mollies, queens or toms with retractable claws for mousing or playfully batting pompoms (4) |
| CHEERINGAID | Pompom or megaphone? |
| BALL | Spherical dahlia similar to the pompom variety; the founder with Farrow of a paint company; or, an object used in various sports (4) |
| BALMORAL | A bodice, bonnet with a pompom, cloak, jacket, laced walking boot, mantle, Oxford-like shoe or petticoat, each named after a Scottish castle (8) |
| SPHERE | Shape of a bowling jack, Edam/mimolette ball, bobble for a hat, celestial globe, golden orb, planet, pompom, Terry's Chocolate Orange or other orbicular thing (6) |
