| NISSENHUT | Corrugated steel shelter used in the war |
| AIRRAIDSHELTER | Detail harriers to destroy building used in the war (3-4,7) |
| NISSEN | Surname of the inventor of a prefabricated steel structure, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel, designed during the First World War |
| ANDERSON | _ shelter, a small prefabricated air-raid shelter used during the Second World War (8) |
| TESTUDO | Old military shelter used to shake at the first sign of thunder (7) |
| NODEHOUSE | Prefabricated shelter used by welders during the construction of an oil rig (4,5) |
| MULBERRYHARBOUR | Fruit shelter used to make an acceptable port (8,7) |
| SHEPHERDS | - hut; traditional mobile shelter used for glamping (9) |
| TENT | Portable shelter used by campers, backpackers, bike tourers and soldiers (4) |
| SNACK | Small crude shelter used as a dwelling. |
| THEREDTENT | Anita Diamant novel about a biblical shelter used by midwives |
| SHED | Wooden garden shelter used for potting up plants (4) |
| CABIN | Shelter used as a taxi garage? (5) |
| BIVVY | Shelter used by e.g. overnight angler (5) |
| CANOPY | Shelter used with African "op" yesterday (6) |
| BIVOUAC | Outdoor shelter used by soldiers |
| BYRES | Shelters used by the replacement players? (5) |
| TENTS | Temporary shelters used for camping, fishing or the Marathon des Sables (5) |
| IGLOOS | Light folding beach shelters used for Eskimo huts |
| ZINC | Metal used in the galvanisation of buckets, corrugated roofs, old bathtubs, planters, troughs, watering cans and other domestic utensils (4) |
