| PADDED | Having a cushion |
| COD | Word for a chap or fellow; a cushion or pillow; a gadoid food-fish; a hoax or jest; a pea husk; or, nonsense (3) |
| TASSEL | Golden "toff" on a mortarboard; ornamental tuft as a key fob or to decorate a cushion, curtain tieback or bell pull; or, a ribbon bookmark (6) |
| STUFFING | A forcemeat-like mixture of breadcrumbs and herbs with which to fill a goose, turkey or other bird before being roasted; or, padding for a cushion, pillow or soft toy (8) |
| ZILLOW | Property-buyer's website that becomes a cushion if its first letter is changed from a Z to a P |
| PIN | A seamstress sticks one into a cushion |
| BANKSHOT | Use of a cushion or a backboard |
| SAT | Put a bottom on a cushion? |
| ABACUS | Grab a cushion with a calculator (6) |
| KNEELER | A cushion or stool for worshippers in a church (7) |
| PAD | Asleep, a dreamer may clutch a cushion (3) |
| SLIPPEDDISC | A displacement of a cushion of tissue between bones in the spine that causes back pain (7,4) |
| HOVERCRAFT | A vehicle for travel over water on a cushion of air invented by engineer Christopher Cockerell (10) |
| RILLING | Edible contents in the centre of a pie, sandwich or Victoria sponge; weft/woof; or, the stuffing in a cushion, duvet or pillow (7) |
| FILLING | Edible contents in the centre of a pie, sandwich or Victoria sponge; weft/woof; or, the stuffing in a cushion, duvet or pillow (7) |
| HASSOCK | A clump of grass used as a cushion (7) |
| QUILT | Word for a cushion or mattress first, now a thick coverlet or duvet (5) |
| GONK | A nonsense word for a cushion-like soft toy (with arms and legs (4) |
| TUFFET | A little clump of grass or moundlet whose small shape is reflected in a cushion, footstool, humpty, low seat, pouffe or tumpty (6) |
| BRICOLE | In billiards, a shot in which the cue ball touches a cushion after striking the object ball before touching another ball (7) |
