| PILLOWCASES | Coverings for a bed's head cushions |
| BREATHER | Break bed's head, preferably clutching sweetheart (8) |
| TOPSOIL | The best lubricant for a bed's surface (7) |
| CANOPY | A cover such as a bed's tester, a cockpit's transparent enclosure, a forest's collective tree crowns or a parachute's overhead fabric dome (6) |
| TOTED | Having carried a child to bed, head off (5) |
| PILLOWS | Bed head-support cushions |
| SHEETS | Expanses of rain, clouds, ice or moving flames; items forming part of a bed's collective linen; geologic sills; or, a poetic word for sails (6) |
| HOWEND | A Beds. two-lake fishery (*he'd own) (3,3) |
| THROW | A cast of dice or a fishing-line; or, a decorative cover for a bed or a sofa (5) |
| LITTER | Word, in its earliest medieval sense, for a bed; later, rubbish lying in a public place; scattered leaves; bedding for animals; a kindle of kittens or farrow of piglets; or, a palanquin (6) |
| PILLOW | Head cushion |
| PROBES | Examines ropes twisted around bed head (6) |
| REBEL | Stagger around bed head and rise up against it (5) |
| MATTED | Like bed head, usually |
| NOBBLED | Drunken blonde clutched bed head when affected by drugs (7) |
| MESSY | Like bed-head hair |
| BASED | Depended upon a bed's being made up (5) |
| SLAT | Part of a bed's base |
| KIP | Unit of weight equal to 1000lb; 100 Laotian at; Scottish dialect for a pointed hill; or, a slang word for a bed, nap or lodging house (3) |
| MATTRESS | Word, from Arabic for "thing thrown down", hence "carpet, cushion, mat", for a "biscuit" or palliasse for a bed (8) |
