| WOVEN | No raft on the wavefront was plaited (5) |
| WHALE | What's that sound behind wavefront? (5) |
| DRAFT | Draw up plan to take raft on first of December (5) |
| BEACHWEAR | Swimmers support catching every wavefront (9) |
| GERRYRAFFERTY | Paisley star makes ramshackle raft on board stricken grey ferry (5,8) |
| KONTIKI | Balsa raft on which Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sailed from Peru to the islands of Polynesia in 1947 (3,4) |
| THONG | A whip of plaited leather or cord (5) |
| TRAIN | A length of hair or fabric that has been plaited (5) |
| BRAID | A length of hair, fabric, etc that has been plaited (5) |
| DOLLY | Historically, a wooden utensil for stirring clothes in a galvanised zinc wash tub; or, linked with "corn" for a figure made from plaited straw (5) |
| WISPS | Flocks of snipe; or, hand-plaited bundles of hay or straw used as part of a horse's traditional grooming kit (5) |
| BERLINERS | Starts building emergency rafts on ships for Germans (9) |
| TRESS | Something plaited |
| LEGHORN | It is a hat plaited from Italian straw, where it gets its name. It has a flexible brim and was considered modern during the 19th century at the time of the crinoline; it is still used a sun-hat. |
| PIGTAIL | The curly caudal extremity of a porcine beast known as a grunter; a lock of hair bunched or plaited behind or at the side of the head; a twist of tobacco; a short length of cable or rope; or, the flam |
| PANAMA | Hat made of the plaited leaves of the jipijapa plant (6) |
| MAT | Piece of coarse fabric of plaited rushes, straw for lying on / piece of resilient material for landing on in gymnastics, wrestling |
| RIBBON | A watchspring; a band-saw; or, one of the strips of cloth on a maypole, a morris dancer's costume or a shire horse's plaited mane (6) |
| CORNDOLLY | Figure of plaited straw (4,5) |
| GRANDSLAM | Bridge success with garlands plaited by a maiden (5,4) |
