| CRESTS | Plumes of feathers or other ornaments on the top of a helmet (6) |
| FINIAL | Ornament on the top of a building (6) |
| PARURE | Set of jewels or other ornaments (6) |
| REGALIA | The crown, sceptre and other ornaments used at a coronation (7) |
| POMMEL | Meaning "little apple", a ball-, disc- or mushroom-shaped ornament on the hilt of a sword; or, the raised part of a saddlebow (6) |
| POMPOM | Word for a jewelled hair ornament on a long pin originally, later a globular chrysanthemum or dahlia; or, a fluffy or woolly bobble for a hat or a shoe (6) |
| EXETER | Erica with plumes of fragrant, white flowers in spring (6) |
| NICHE | From the French for "recess" and the Latin for "make a nest", an alcove or nook in a wall for the display of a bust, statue or other ornament (5) |
| SALLET | Everything in place of a helmet (6) |
| TUFT | A bunch of feathers or threads; a clump of trees; a goatee beard; a grassy tussock; or, the historical gold tassel on an Oxbridge nobleman's cap, hence a titled undergraduate (4) |
| PLAIDY | Jean, a nom de plume of Eleanor Hibbert (6) |
| PANACHE | A tuft or plume of feathers on a helmet, etc (7) |
| BROACH | Raise for discussion ornament on clothing, reportedly (6) |
| ANTLER | Sexual ornament on a male deer |
| VISOR | Old word for a mask; the peak of a cap; or, the eyeshade of a helmet (5) |
| OSPREY | Plume of smoke’s beginning to distress |
| BRASS | An ornament on the harness of a heavy horse; high-ranking military officials collectively; or, a metal used in chalcography (5) |
| AIGRETTE | Piece of jewellery in imitation of a plume of feathers (8) |
| EPAULETTE | An ornament on the shoulder of a military or naval officer's uniform (9) |
| GALEA | Part of the calyx or corolla having the form of a helmet. (5) |
