| WISPY | Descriptor for cirrus clouds or a thin mustache |
| DRIZZLE | Form of precipitation falling from low-level stratus clouds; or, a thin stream of icing/syrup trickled over a lemon cake (7) |
| DALI | Artist Salvador who had a long thin mustache |
| PENCIL | "___ Thin Mustache" (1974 Jimmy Buffett hit) |
| SCRAPE | An act of raking, rasping or rubbing; a graze; a stroke of a pen or a violin bow; a fiddler; a shave; a barber; a grating sound; a mass razed up by a rabbit; a scuffle; or, a thin spread of butter (6) |
| SURGE | Word for a fountain originally, later a great wave; swell; a billowing cloud; or, a transient rush of crowds, electricity, emotion, power etc (5) |
| GNAT | Any one of a myriad of midge- or mozzie-like flies abounding in a cloud; or, a person who is comparably as annoying, insignificant or tiny (4) |
| SUNBURST | A sudden emergence of "Sol" from behind the clouds; or, a brooch, jewel, motif or ornament resembling said "daystar" and its rays (8) |
| OMEN | Dark clouds or a black cat, for some |
| TAPER | A thin candle or a thin wooden or waxed strip for transferring a flame (5) |
| NONETHEWISPIER | Like most clouds, compared to cirrus clouds? |
| MARESTAIL | Common pond plant or a wisp of cirrus cloud |
| FLY | Insect known collectively as a cloud; or, a tent's door flap (3) |
| SAW | Tool for cutting solid materials to prescribed lengths or shapes. Most take the form of a thin metal strip with teeth on one edge or a thin metal disk with teeth on the periphery. Usually the teeth ar |
| CIRRUS | From "curl, lock of hair", word for the wispy white or feathery clouds or "mare's tails" of frozen crystals forming at high altitude and responsible for halos around the Sun or the Moon; or, in botany |
| WISPS | Cirrus clouds, e.g. |
| GRASSHAIR | Cirrus clouds left Rio aghast, possibly! (5-4) |
| MARES | Part of a cirrus cloud that will make the same trail (5) |
| TAIL | Part of a cirrus cloud that will make the same trail (4) |
| SHEEN | Lustre; a poetic word for splendid or glistening attire; or, a thin slick of oil on the surface of water (5) |
