| CIRRUS | Cloud forming "mare's tails" (6) |
| CIRRI | High altitude clouds forming "mares' tails" (5) |
| CLOUDS | Nephological masses forming mare's tails (6) |
| PLANET | What might be Venus flytrap, say, smothering mare's tail? |
| ALTOSTRATUS | Cloud forming a uniform layer |
| CIRROCUMULUS | High-altitude cloud forming a broken layer |
| GNATS | Cloud-forming insects |
| STRATUS | Cloud forming a continuous horizontal grey sheet (7) |
| CONFETTI | From Italian for "bonbons", word for little sweets or exploding white-cloud-forming balls of plaster flung at carnivals originally, later for pieces of colourful fluttering paper thrown over brides/gr |
| FOG | A name for aftermath, growing after hay is cut; long grass in a damp meadow; low-altitude cloud forming a dense brume, haze, mist or pea-souper; or, a Scottish word for moss (3) |
| ALTO | Word linking "cumulus" for one of the clouds forming a mackerel sky (4) |
| BOTTLEBRUSH | Preserve wild shrub -- a mare's-tail (11) |
| HORSEHAIR | Mare's-tail, say, used for stuffing (9) |
| HORSETAIL | Mare's tail |
| YEARLING | Foal, perhaps playing, angrily biting mare's tail (8) |
| OVERATE | Was a pig plainly seen eating a mare's tail? |
| SCOUNDREL | Rogue caught in stable with both hands grasping mare's tail |
| BOWDLERISE | Groom blowdries mare's tail to remove dirty bits (10) |
| FROMABOVE | Precipitate aerial view of Grey Mare's Tail? (4,4,5) |
| FALL | Precipitate aerial view of Grey Mare's Tail? (4,4,5) |
