| ENCARPUS | From Greek for "fruiting", a sculpted festoon of fruit with drapery, flowers and leaves ornamenting a classical architectural frieze (8) |
| SWAG | Ornamental festoon or garland of drapery, flowers, foliage, fruit, linen etc; a carved or painted representation of thus; or, the boodle or booty of a burglar (4) |
| CURTAINS | Dogs surrounding volunteers at home with drapery |
| HABERDASHERY | Moving by, hear about reindeer with drapery items (12) |
| BUST | A sculpted portrait, often set on a pedestal in a grand room; the economic antithesis of a boom; a blackjack loser's fate; or, a police raid involving a smash of a door or gate (4) |
| BUTTON | Any one of the bijou nacre objects ornamenting the costumes of the London costermongers known as pearly kings/queens; a bud; a small disc of chocolate; a knob at the end of a foil; or, anything of lit |
| CRISP | Anglo-Saxon word for curly/frizzy hair originally, later a wafer of potato deep-fried as a snack; or, a pudding of fruit with a crumble-like topping (5) |
| PIPING | Lines, strings, swirls etc of cream or icing ornamenting cakes/puddings; fabric-covered cord as a trimming; a cutting of a carnation or a pink; or, a collective system of tubing (6) |
| ROCOCO | From a French word denoting shell-covered pebble work ornamenting artificial grottoes, a term for a flamboyant style of architecture, decoration and furniture-making that emerged in Paris in the 1720s |
| GARLAND | A wreath of flowers and leaves worn on the head or hung as a decoration (7) |
| ADA | A forename of Lord Byron's daughter Countess of Lovelace, who said that the analytical engine "weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves" (3) |
| TORSO | From Italian for "stalk, stump", the trunk of a sculpted/human body without head or limbs; or, anything incomplete, truncated or unfinished (5) |
| MARIJUANA | Hemp; a narcotic drug made from its flowers and leaves (9) |
| BORAGE | A herbaceous plant with bright blue flowers and leaves that attract bees (6) |
| MIMOSA | Genus of tropical shrubs having ball-like clusters of yellow flowers and leaves that are sensitive to light (6) |
| GARLANDS | Long festoons of fir cones, flowers, foliage and fruit used to decorate beams, chimney pieces and staircases at Christmas; or, literary anthologies or florilegia (8) |
| HAVEADATE | Eat a piece of fruit with a friend? |
| PERIDOT | Ornamenting the Grand Reliquary of the Magi or Shrine of the Three Kings in Cologne, a semiprecious gem or mineral with an emerald- or jade-coloured hue (7) |
| 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 |
| LEI | Hawaiian wreath of flowers and leaves worn on the head or shoulders |
