| TUFTED | In tufts |
| SEDGE | Plant growing in tufts |
| TURF | Rooted in "tuft of grass", a green sometimes-sodden carpet or gallops grazed or raced upon by horses (4) |
| STENOTUS | Genus of western North American low evergreen shrubs growing in dense tufts. |
| TASSELS | Less sat around in the hanging tufts (7) |
| EAGLE | Large nocturnal bird, rare in UK, with feather tufts on head (5,3) |
| OWL | Large nocturnal bird, rare in UK, with feather tufts on head (5,3) |
| SILK | Textile used for QCs' gowns; lustre in rubies; spider's gossamer; or, the tufts of an ear or com/maize (4) |
| QUIFFS | Who in Paris, France, starts to favour slick tufts of hair? (6) |
| CRESTEDGREBE | Great --- ---, aquatic bird with blackish ear tufts and, in the breeding season, a dark brown frill around the head (7,5) |
| GREATCRESTEDGREBE | Bird having blackish ear tufts in the breeding season (5,7,5) |
| BTU | Unit of heat, found in cockscomb tufts (1,1,1) |
| CRINITE | In botany, having or resembling tufts of hair (7) |
| THISTLEDOWN | Tufts blowing in the wind, lots being scattered (11) |
| BIRDSNEST | Type of tropical epiphytic fern frequently forming tufts in tree crotches |
| TUSSOCKS | Second person in Paris has small footwear for tufts of grass (8) |
| REDSQUIRREL | A small, tree-living mammal with a bushy tail and large ear tufts that appear in winter (3,8) |
| ORIBI | Antelope with tufts of knee hair |
| LYNX | Cat with ear tufts |
| HAIRS | TUFTS |
