| DENUDE | Strip or vegetation |
| VERDURE | From French for "green", a poetic word for flourishing grass, greenery, herbage or vegetation; its colour; or, a condition of freshness or vigour (7) |
| GREENERY | Foliage or vegetation |
| FECUND | Capable of producing offspring or vegetation (6) |
| VERDANT | Covered with lush green grass or vegetation |
| STRAP | An elongated leather strip (or or strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position. |
| BERM | Strip or path bordering a canal or river; or, a ledge between a parapet and its associated ditch or moat (4) |
| SCROLL | A furl of paper or parchment; or, a curlicue, fancy flourish, ribbon-like ornamental strip or other decorative depiction of said coil in architecture, art, calligraphy, heraldry or textiles (6) |
| BELTS | Strips or leather or other materials worn around the waist or across the chest to retain or support clothes or to carry a weapon |
| BELT | Strip or band of leather or other material worn around the waist to hold clothing up / sing loudly or lustily with a driving rhythm |
| LABEL | A bookplate, crowner, nametape, seal, sticker, tag or other identifying band, flap or strip; or, a dripstone (5) |
| DESPOIL | To strip or deprive by force, plunder, rob or loot (7) |
| RIBBON | Narrow strip or band of fabric used for trimming or decoration |
| STRAW | Strip or twist of puff pastry baked with grated parmesan; natural material used for animal bedding, hats and thatching; or, a pale yellow colour (5) |
| SHRED | Strip or fragment torn or cut off (5) |
| LIST | A border, selvedge or strip; or, a written enumeration of items, names, things to buy, to-dos, topics etc (4) |
| LARDON | A strip or cube of fat or bacon (6) |
| FRONTAGE | Strip or extent of land abutting on a street or water (8) |
| FRET | The true-lover's knot of heraldry; a sea fog or haar; or, one of a series of metal strips or ridges on the fingerboard of a guitar (4) |
| DRAG | Strip or bunt intro |
