| CREST | Highest point of hill with a tuft on the head |
| CRESTED | Having a tuft on the head |
| TOR | Type of hill with a notable example in Glastonbury (3) |
| LION | Predator with a tuft on its tail |
| SIERRA | A chain of hills with a saw-like appearance (6) |
| SUMMIT | Highest point (of hill) |
| FATHERBROWN | Overweight woman's reaching top of hill with new detective (6,5) |
| TOPKNOT | Tuft on the head (7) |
| TOGA | From "hair of the head", word for a tuft of a seed or pineapple; a leafy crown of a palm; or, the nebulous envelope of the head of a "long-haired star" (4) |
| SWITCH | Tassel-like tuft on the tip of a cow's tail; a device for opening or closing a circuit; or a whisk for whipping cream or eggs (6) |
| CATKIN | A tuft on a willow hazel, e.g. (6) |
| WISP | A small broom; a twisted bunch as a torch; a bundle of hay/straw; a flock of snipe; or, something delicate, such as a streak of smoke or a tuft of hair (4) |
| CUESTA | In geography, a hill with a gentle slope on one side and a steep ridge or the other (6) |
| BIGWIG | Rabbit in Richard Adams' Watership Down with a tuft of hair on his head (6) |
| TORNADO | Dan returns to the hill with a duck in a storm (7) |
| PINEAPPLE | Fruit with a tuft of stiff leaves (9) |
| TASSELLED | Ornamented with a tuft of hanging threads |
| FETLOCK | How to fleck it with a tuft of hair (7) |
| PENCIL | From "tail", a painter's fine brush of hair, like a tuft at the end of such a scut; a stick of wood-encased blacklead/ graphite or chalk with which to delineate, doodle, hatch, scribble or write; or, |
| MOLE | Burrowing animal often casting up a large hill with a nesting chamber known as a fortress |
