| CLUTTER | Disordered heap; a mare's nest; a group of cats; or, radar disturbance caused by chaff or natural elements such as rain, birds or the sea (7) |
| AWN | An arista or beard of barley, corn, rye, wheat and the like, all bristly like chaff or sharp like a javelin/spike (3) |
| STRAW | Chaff, or a drinking tube (5) |
| STABLE | A mare's nest, so to speak? |
| FOAL | One in a mare's nest? |
| PILE | A heap; a heavy stake; the surface of a carpet; or, a stack of money (4) |
| EQUINITY | A stallion's noble essence, a steed's dignity, a hackney's hippic nature or a mare's caballine mind - simply a word for the collective horse/pony equivalent of humankind (8) |
| PRIDE | Self-satisfaction of a group of cats |
| PADS | Shock absorbers of cats' or dogs' paws; note/sketchbooks; or, the floating leaves of water lilies (4) |
| TRANSPOND | Radio or radar device that transmits a signal of its own when receiving a predetermined one from elsewhere (11) |
| CLOWDER | A group of cats |
| SCUFFLE | Minor disturbance caused by blow during a bit of sleep (7) |
| QUAKE | Major disturbance caused by EU stepping out of line about a king |
| MERLIN | Known collectively as an illusion and sometimes laying its eggs in an old crow's nest, a falcon or "pigeon hawk" of heather moorland that is the UK's smallest bird of prey (6) |
| NIDUS | Latin "nest" - a breeding or hatching place for birds, germs, ideas, neurons, spiders, troubles or viruses (5) |
| DISORDERLYCONDUCT | Disturbance caused by a minor legal offense |
| DISORDER | Disturbance caused by a minor legal offense |
| AGGRO | Disturbance caused by a minor legal offense |
| DISRUPTION | Disturbance caused by a minor legal offense |
| DISORDERLYBEHAVIOR | Disturbance caused by a minor legal offense |
