| FURRY | Covered with a dense coat of fine hairs |
| FUR | The dense coat of fine silky hairs on animals such as cats (3) |
| SHIHTZU | Small Asian dog with a dense coat and a curled tail (4-3) |
| AKITA | Large dog breed with a dense coat |
| INDUMENTUM | Covering of fine hairs, as on a leaf |
| FUZZ | A mass or covering of fine hairs or fibres (4) |
| PAPPUS | Ring of fine hair on a seed dispersed by the wind (6) |
| DOWNFALL | Mass of fine hair fellow, in front of everyone, is undoing (8) |
| LABRADOR | The - retriever is a dog with a short dense coat of black or golden-brown (8) |
| POODLES | Domestic dogs with a single dense coat of curled hair (7) |
| STBERNARD | Large breed of dog with a dense redand-white coat (2,7) |
| BERNARD | Saint ---, large breed of dog with a dense redand-white coat (7) |
| IRISHTERRIER | Medium-sized reddish breed of working dog with a dense, wiry coat (5,7) |
| ESKIMODOG | Sled puller with a dense, coarse coat |
| SWAMP | Waterlogged area with a dense covering of vegetation in the tropics (5) |
| BOTTOMPIE | Dessert with a dense lower layer of chocolate custard |
| SAMOYED | Siberian dog breed with a dense fluffy white coat |
| PHALANX | A formation of ancient Greek warriors with interlocking shields; or, by extension, a dense body of soldiers; a crowd; a bone of a finger or toe; or, a bundle of stamens (7) |
| VELVET | Soft fabric with a dense pile; or, downy antler skin evocative of this (6) |
| RYEBREAD | Dark loaf with a dense chewy texture (8) |
