| RIBTICKLER | Tease with feather, say, and gag |
| PREEN | Fiddle with feathers, say |
| STICKLER | Second feather, say, one splitting hairs? (8) |
| RAGAMUFFIN | Disreputable child to tease with a cake (10) |
| WHEEZE | Breathe with difficulty and gag (6) |
| STAGGER | How I reel and gag - needing rest (7) |
| WHEEZES | Breathes with difficulty and gags (7) |
| TRANQUILLISE | Sedate with retsina stirred with feather (12) |
| CUSHION | Soft pad, of feathers say (7) |
| ERMA | "Family: The Ties That Bind...and Gag!" author Bombeck |
| COMEDYLINGO | Shop talk terms such as "joke map" and "gag hag" |
| BDSM | Practice with blindfolds and gags, for short |
| EAGLE | Large nocturnal bird, rare in UK, with feather tufts on head (5,3) |
| OWL | Large nocturnal bird, rare in UK, with feather tufts on head (5,3) |
| FERN | Plant with feather-like leaves, there are at least 10 species which grow in Mallorca's Sierra de Tramuntana range and nowhere else in the world (4) |
| RAG | Tease, with "on" (and hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| RIBCAGE | Tease with keys to supporting structure (7) |
| RAGA | Tease with a piece of music (7) |
| ATSEA | One endless tease with section misplaced. Boatman can be thus (2,3) |
| AERIES | Homes with feather beds |
