| BUSTLES | Silhouette-enhancing tournures used to add fullness to the backs of the skirts of Victorian ladies' dresses (7) |
| BUSTLE | A bearer or tournure for accentuating the posterior of a lady's skirt (6) |
| PIZZADOUGH | It's tossed with the palm of one hand up, and the other in a fist; it's caught on the backs of the fists |
| HEELS | Leans to one side on the backs of the feet |
| PECK | Author of books including A Patchwork Tale, The Skirts of Time, A Garden Enclosed, House-Bound and Home for the Holidays (4) |
| NAPES | Snap and point to the backs of their necks (5) |
| ASTARTE | Feasted on the skirts of celebrity goddess (7) |
| CRINOLINE | Hooped petticoat used to expand the skirt of a dress (9) |
| PLENUM | Enclosed chamber containing pressurised air, as contained within the skirt of a hovercraft (6) |
| TARLATAN | Name, similar to that of Scottish plaid, for a type of stiffened muslin formerly used to add shape to ball-gowns, crinolines or dresses (8) |
| TAIL | Either of the two tapering "skirts" of a morning coat; descending stroke of a Q; or, the foot of a book (4) |
| FROUFROU | Four/four alternation? That causes the swish of the skirt! (8) |
| DEMERARA | Brown sugar in large crystals used to add crunch to cheesecake bases, crumbles and shortbread biscuits; or, a variety of dark Guyanese rum (8) |
| LARDONS | Cubes of fatty bacon or pork fat used to add flavour (7) |
| BURETTE | A glass tube with a small tap at the base used to add liquid into something (7) |
| SPURS | Spikes on the backs of gamecocks' legs; goads on the heels of horse-riders' boots; or, by extension, things serving to incentivise, prompt or urge forth (5) |
| PLEAT | Helpmate drops hem from a piece of the skirt (5) |
| MAXI | Longest of the skirt length choices |
| CHEONGSAM | Straight dress with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt worn by Chinese women (9) |
| MATTE | Mask used to add an image in front of camera |
