| WIMPLE | Headdress of linen or silk worn by women in medieval times (6) |
| CHANTILLYLACE | Delicate fabric made of silk, worn by brides and at funerals - all neatly chic (anag) (9,4) |
| ECRU | Colour of unbleached linen or silk (4) |
| SASH | A long piece of ribbon or silk worn around the waist like a belt, or over one shoulder (4) |
| COIF | From "helmet, skullcap", word for a close-fitting cap, often of white lawn, linen or silk originally, later a barnet, hairstyle, set or 5 Down (4) |
| TIGHTS | One--piece clinging garment worn by women in place of stockings (6) |
| BUSTLE | A pad or frame worn by women in the late 19th Century to puff out their skirts at the back (6) |
| MUUMUU | What loose brightly coloured dress is worn by women in Hawaii? (6) |
| DAMASK | Fabric made of linen or other material, interwoven with patterns of flowers, etc. (6) |
| BIKINI | As worn by women in the N. Pacific? |
| VIGORO | Sport created by Englishman John George Grant in 1901 as a combination of cricket and tennis, now a 12-a-side game played mainly by women in Australia (6) |
| LITTER | Word for a bed in medieval times, later hay, rushes, straw etc as bedding for cattle or horses; a brood of kittens, piglets or other animals; or, rubbish, carelessly strewn on the ground (6) |
| POWWOW | Exclamation of wonder after revolutionary work by women in conference (6) |
| KNIGHT | A boy, servant or youth to the Anglo-Saxons, but in medieval times, a warrior or man of distinguished military rank (6) |
| ORDEAL | In medieval times, a method of testing guilt (6) |
| NAPERY | Household linen, or in medieval times, where it was stored |
| GORGET | In medieval times, a piece of armour which protected the throat (6) |
| BERGEN | Port in S.W. Norway important in medieval times (6) |
| TWINGE | Pain shown by women in flush? (6) |
| MERLIN | Dainty but majestic raptor whose petite size made it the bird of choice for female falconers in medieval times, hence its monicker "lady hawk" (6) |
