| TRESSURE | From "to plait", a shield's orle-like subordinary, typically borne double and flowered with fleurs-de-lys (8) |
| TRESSURED | Very confident daughter displaying subordinary signs |
| WHEREBY | By which to plait a Hebrew ponytail? (7) |
| BOSS | From Dutch for "master", a chief, employer, top man/woman or other leader; or, a shield's central umbo (4) |
| TOIL | "Double, double .... and trouble", from the Song of the Witches in Macbeth (4) |
| BARBER | Occupation of a Great Dictator's double and a Man Who Wasn't There (6) |
| LOAF | Known in French as "miche" and kneaded into shapes including boule, pave, bloomer, cob, split tin or plait, a standard quantity of baked bread (4) |
| EMBROIDERY | Based on "weave, plait", a word for the art or pastime of ornamenting fabric with needlework; the fancywork created; diversity or variegation; or, invented fanciful embellishment in reporting, storyte |
| ORLE | Type of bordure in heraldry but detached from a shield's edges (4) |
| ORDINARY | Simple figure such as a cross charged upon a shield's field (8) |
| TALIPOT | Palm with leaves used to plait (7) |
| OCTUPLE | Double, double and double again |
| STROLL | Sort out, having had a large double and a walk (6) |
| SHANGHAI | Term for hitting a single, double and triple of the same number in darts (8) |
| FLEURY | Decorated with fleurs-de-lis |
| ECUS | Coins with fleurs-de-lis |
| RAPID | Plait a second-class incursion (5) |
| TEXERE | To plait or weave... make... compose |
| BRAID | To plait |
| INTERTWINE | To plait |
