| PLUME | Cloud of smoke (5) |
| APPAL | A cloud of smoke we hear to cause dismay (5) |
| POOFS | Sounds that might accompany clouds of smoke |
| PALL | Dark cloud (of smoke) |
| POTHEAD | Endless cloud of smoke, notice - mine? |
| POOF | Sound with a magician's cloud of smoke |
| PUFF | Little cloud of smoke |
| OBSCURE | Cloud of smoke, perhaps, under medical observation |
| PLUMES | Clouds of smoke |
| SPRAY | A cloud of droplets; a sprig forming a hand-tied bunch of flowers; or, a brooch in the form of a jewelled bouquet (5) |
| SMOKE | "Ghost of a fire" manifesting as a cloud of carbon particles suspended in the air; grey tinged with blue; a woodbine or other smouldering burn; or, anything that fogs or obscures (5) |
| SWARM | Cloud of bees did breaststroke around head of river (5) |
| VIRGA | From Latin for "branch, rod, twig", a term for an observable streak, wisp or "jellyfish cloud" of ice crystals, raindrops or snowflakes that evaporates before hitting Earth (5) |
| STOUR | Scots word, from "armed combat, storm, tumult", for a cloud of dust (5) |
| VAPES | Victor, denied entrance, opens wide and inhales a cloud of nicotine (5) |
| CIRRI | Word, from the Latin for "crimped locks of hair, fringes, tendrils, tufts", for clouds of frozen crystals forming feathery, filamentous, tufted or wispy streaks called mares'-tails (5) |
| MOIST | One starts inside cloud of particles slightly wet |
| MISTS | Clouds of vapour (5) |
| TORSO | Trunk road heading into clouds of soot (5) |
| NIMBI | Clouds and clouds of denim binding! (5) |
