| BAFFLES | Puzzles females wearing cotton, perhaps... (7) |
| POPLIN | Father left wearing cotton, perhaps (6) |
| BAFFLING | Bewildering, finding a pair of females wearing jewellery (8) |
| BANDANA | Book with three articles about big character of Dot Cotton perhaps being spotted in Square (7) |
| NANKEEN | Hard-wearing cotton fabric (7) |
| PITFALL | Unforeseen difficulty of Italian female wearing shroud (7) |
| INFUSED | Soaked female wearing second-hand clothes |
| SHERGAR | Kidnap victim, female wearing old clothes, turned up |
| COMEFOR | Arrive to collect old writer, female wearing surprised expression (4,3) |
| INVEST | Buy shares in cotton perhaps? (6) |
| RAWMATERIAL | Marital wear manufactured in cotton, perhaps (3,8) |
| DENIM | A hard-wearing cotton fabric |
| GILLINGHAM | Football team's problem, wearing cotton fabric |
| CHINOOKS | Warm winds, so fine wearing cotton trousers |
| CHINO | Long-wearing cotton cloth |
| CANTO | One wearing cotton occasionally described in a few lines (5) |
| MOLESKIN | Hard-wearing cotton fabric with a short, soft pile (8) |
| BEREFT | Perhaps widowed female wearing traditional headgear (6) |
| AFRAID | Reluctant female wearing a sack (6) |
| ASHEN | Female wearing article, very pale (5) |
