| FETLOCK | Evenly affect strand or tuft of hair on a horse (7) |
| TOPKNOT | Crest or tuft of hair |
| SHAG | Ragged mass of hair on a cormorant |
| BEARD | Growth of hair on a man's face (5) |
| SCOPULA | Tuft of hairs on a spider's foot (such a useful word) |
| CRESTED | Having a comb or tuft of feathers (7) |
| PANACHE | From the Latin for "little feather", a plume or tuft in a soldier's helmet; knightly splendour; or, a dashing manner, flamboyance or swagger (7) |
| TWINING | Twisting rope of two strands (or more) (7) |
| NATASHA | Article about facial hair on a girl (7) |
| WHISKER | Hair on a cat's face (7) |
| STUBBLE | Short stiff hairs on a man's face before a shave (7) |
| CRESTS | Manes of horses; plumes or tufts of birds or helmets; identifying rings on arrows; or, tops of hills or waves (6) |
| DESERTS | Strands, or bad places to be stranded |
| HACKLES | The hairs on a dog's neck (7) |
| WISPS | Word for flocks of snipe; friars' lanterns; petite girls/slight boys; twists of hay or straw; small brooms; strands or streaks of hair or smoke; or, tufts (5) |
| AIGRETTE | A plume or tuft of feathers from a lesser white heron adorning a headdress (8) |
| CREST | A comb or tuft of feathers on a bird's head (5) |
| MANE | Hair on a horse or a lion |
| TOP | Word for a carrot leaf; a circus tent; a crest or tuft; a lid; a teetotum; a T-shirt; or, the uppermost creamy layer of unhomogenised milk (3) |
| STRING | Word for a filing cord, hypothetical thread of matter, rope of pearls, strip of "silly" aerosol foam, tough fibre of a French bean, twanging wire of catgut or other line, filament, strand or twine (6) |
