| FETLOCK | Part of a horse's leg where a tuft of hair grows above the hoof (7) |
| CORONET | Small crown; or, the band of a horse's leg where the hairline meets the hoof (7) |
| AERIAL | A root that grows above the ground (6) |
| SHIN | Part of the leg where the tibia is |
| PASTERN | Pest ran wildly around part of a horse's leg (7) |
| ETAERIO | From "association", botanical Latin for the aggregate achenes, drupels or fruitlets forming a blackberry, custard apple, fraise, rasp or a tuft of old man's beard from the traveller's joy (7) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| ALPINES | Ornamental European plants that grow above the timberline |
| HOCK | Part of a horse's leg above the fetlock which is analogous to the human ankle (4) |
| GOATEE | What kind of beard consists of a tuft of hair on the chin? (6) |
| STOCKING | White marking on the lower part of a horse's leg (8) |
| SOCK | White marking on the lower part of a horse's leg (4) |
| STOCKINGS | White markings of the lower part of a horse's legs (9) |
| CHESTNUT | A castaneous tree; one of its buckeyes, chinquapins or conkers; an ergot or "night eye" on a horse's leg; an auburn or sorrel coat of such an equid; or, a stale old joke (8) |
| TACHE | Strip of hair left to grow above the upper lip (5) |
| QUIFF | A tuft of hair turned up over the forehead (5) |
| BIGWIG | Rabbit in Richard Adams' Watership Down with a tuft of hair on his head (6) |
| IMPERIAL | Put one in danger about a tuft of hair on lower lip (8) |
| HES | "If ___ bald, why do I see a tuft of hair on his head?" |
