| NEP | Fiber clusters in wool |
| UMBELLATE | Of a plant, having flower clusters in which stalks spring from a centre (9) |
| TRAPEZIUM | Open star cluster in the centre of the Orion Nebula; or, a bone in the wrist (9) |
| BRACT | In botany, a modified leaf, typically small, bearing a flower or flower cluster in its axil (5) |
| JEWEL | - Box; star cluster in Crux (5) |
| PLEIADES | Conspicuous star cluster in Taurus |
| RACEME | Cluster in competition with first person |
| HYADES | Open star cluster in Taurus (6) |
| GAGGLEOFGEESE | Anserine cluster in farmyard (6,2,5) |
| GEMS | Cluster in a marquise |
| ISLES | Cluster in an archipelago |
| MERINO | Farmer in Orkney brings in wool supplier (6) |
| BEEHIVE | Common name for Praesepe, a star cluster in the constellation Cancer (7) |
| UMBEL | Flower cluster in which stalks spring from a common centre forming a shape like a parasol (5) |
| TARSUS | Name shared by a bone cluster in the foot and a plate of connective tissue on the rim of the eyelid (6) |
| JEWELBOX | A casket of variously coloured gems; a star cluster in Crux, reminiscent of this; a rough or spiky clam of warm seas; or, a CD case (5,3) |
| LECTURES | Cluster, in the end, around a series of talks (8) |
| ARCHIPELAGO | Head off geographical upheaval for cluster in the ocean (11) |
| TARTANS | Coloured patterns woven in wool, illegal in Scotland from 1746 to 1782 (7) |
| CRIMPS | Pinched or fluted edges of pies or pasties; waves in wool fibres or made with tongs; or, soft beads squashed with pliers in jewellery-making (6) |
