| PLUMAGE | Feathers or fruit seen on time (7) |
| LEMONS | Yellow fruits seen on classic slot machine reels |
| PLUCK | A short sharp pull of an eyebrow, fowl's feather or fruit from a tree; a strum or twang of a musical string; or, the heart, liver and lungs of an animal, hence courage, guts, heart or spirit (5) |
| PLUME | Becomes feather or fruit at this point (5) |
| FOOTAGE | Film legend seen on time (7) |
| BANANAS | Fruit seen in description of fruitcake (7) |
| SATSUMA | Fruit seen as a must, perhaps (7) |
| EYESPOT | Type of marking on a peacock's tail feather or on the wing of a butterfly such as gatekeeper, meadow brown, speckled wood or cabbage white (7) |
| PIEBALD | Animals having patches of black, white or other colours of hair, feathers or scales (7) |
| TUSSOCK | Bunch of hair, feathers or growing grass (7) |
| COCKADE | A feather or ribbon worn on military headwear (7) |
| MARABOU | Largest of the storks; its feathers; or, a type of fine white raw silk (7) |
| MOLTING | Shedding feathers or skin, as some animals do while developing |
| RUFFLED | Like some feathers or tuxedo shirts |
| PLUCKED | Pulled feather - or eyebrows - out! (7) |
| TITILLO | I tickle, whether with a feather or a joke |
| TOMSK | One Russian city or another seen on time |
| ATLAST | Strongman to be seen on time, or after long wait? (2,4) |
| ELLIOT | Page seen on Time's cover? |
| CUSTARDAPPLE | W Indian fruit seen in the paper lad cuts out (7-5) |
