| HERALDIC | Relating to coats of arms etc (8) |
| HERALDRY | Study of coats of arms etc (8) |
| ACCOUTRE | Equip with clothes, arms etc (8) |
| BLAZONRY | Art of deciphering or drawing coats of arms (8) |
| TINCTURE | In heraldry, any of the traditional colours or metals used in coats of arms (8) |
| BEARINGS | In heraldry, charges or devices on shields; or, coats of arms (8) |
| CACHE | Hidden store of arms etc (5) |
| SEMAPHORE | System of signalling using flags, moving arms, etc (9) |
| ASCOT | Garment that anagrams to "coats" |
| TOSCA | Opera whose title anagrams to "coats" |
| HOODS | Head covers fixed to coats (5) |
| STORES | Computer memories; village shops; or, a ship or army's supplies of provisions, equipment, arms etc (6) |
| IDIOM | Established phrase whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal sense of its words, e.g. over the moon, up in arms etc. (5) |
| CRESTS | Tops of waves; summits of hills; mountain ridges; or, objects bound to helmets by "wreaths of the colours" on coats of arms (6) |
| KINGS | - of Arms; chief heralds with authority to grant coats of arms (5) |
| EAGLE | Bird of prey featured on the coats of arms of numerous countries including Austria, Egypt, Germany a |
| CREST | Tuft of feathers on the head of a bird such as a cockatoo, grey crowned crane or waxwing; or, a heraldic device on some coats of arms above the torse (5) |
| TABARDS | Coats with coats of arms |
| SARCASM | Foot left out of coats of arms causes caustic remark (7) |
| SHIELD | Protect main feature of coats of arms (6) |
