| CANOPY | Overhanging protection or shelter (6) |
| REFUGE | Protection or shelter from danger (6) |
| SCONCE | A fort/earthwork defending a ford or castle gate; a screen or shelter from fire or the weather; or, a decorative wall bracket for candles or lights (6) |
| ESCORT | Ship, aircraft, etc., used as protection or guidance (6) |
| ASYLUM | A place of protection or refuge (6) |
| ARMOUR | Protection, or a rum version of it (6) |
| SCREEN | Word, from "protect", for a barrier, covering, divider, guard, partition or other shield or shelter and, ultimately, a display surface, aka VDU, with which to interact daily in our digital world (6) |
| BOOTHS | Old Norse dwellings, huts or shelters, but modern cubicles, kiosks or stalls in which to dine, hide/vote or make private telephone calls (6) |
| LEEWAY | Play, or shelter on course (6) |
| GRILLE | A screen of metal bars placed for protection or discreet observation (6) |
| AWNING | A sheet of canvas for shade or shelter over a storefront (6) |
| LEANTO | Rough shed or shelter |
| SOFFIT | Underside of overhanging eaves or of an archway, balcony, beam, entablature or stair (6) |
| KRANTZ | (S Africa) An encircling or overhanging wall of rock (6) |
| PRUNED | Like a hedge or tree whose overhanging leaves have been cut (6) |
| WITHER | Dry piece of willow overhanging river (6) |
| PARROT | Swims with overhanging branches (*captor's gear) (6,5) |
| BEETLE | Overhanging (brows) (6) |
| CHALET | Wooden house with overhanging eaves (6) |
| IGUANA | What large green lizard is found throughout tropical America, often in trees overhanging water? (6) |
