| TWEEDS | Textiles such as the "Clo-Mor" traditionally handwoven by Outer Hebridean islanders for country clothes of the same name (6) |
| HARRIS | Southern part of the largest island of the Outer Hebrides, noted for its "clo-mor" tweed originally handwoven by local crofters from their cottages (6) |
| ALEUT | Rat Islander, for one |
| CARBONFOOTPRINT | Global warming calculation whose shape is suggested by connecting 14 squares in this puzzle in a clo |
| IRON | Smoo*h, as clo*hes |
| HARRISTWEED | Cloth handwoven in the homes of Outer Hebridean "guardians of the orb" (6,5) |
| CHECK | Pattern of crossed lines forming squares for chessboards and textiles such as gingham or plaid (5) |
| MORDANT | An adhesive for gold leaf, or, a substance used to set dyes on textiles such as palampore (7) |
| NAP | The raised pile on textiles such as velvet |
| COTTON | Natural fibre used to make textiles such as chambray, gingham, muslin, Liberty London's Tana Lawn or calico (6) |
| NET | Textile such as tulle; the goal in football; or, a strip dividing a tennis or badminton court (3) |
| TWEED | Cloth handwoven in the Outer Hebrides, traditionally dyed with botanical sources including cudbear for purple-crimson, crotal or lichen for orange and bilberry for blue (5) |
| LACE | Ornamental textile such as guipure or traditional Cluny woven with Leavers machines (4) |
| MATERIAL | Textile such as tweed or linen; or, all of a player's pieces/pawns on a chessboard (8) |
| FABRIC | Textile such as candlewick, chambray, cotton, linen or ticking, sold or stored in rolls or "bolts" (6) |
| BENBECULA | Outer Hebridean island from where Bonnie Prince Charlie headed 'over the sea to Skye', disguised as Betty Burke, Flora MacDonald's maid |
| PIBROCH | Also known as ceol mor, the classical music of the bagpipes (7) |
| TABBY | A textile such as silk or taffeta with a watered pattern; or, a cat with a brownish-greyish brindled coat (5) |
| ARETE | Sharp ridge of rock between glacial valleys, such as the one linking Scotland's Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis (5) |
| ERISKAY | Outer Hebridean island between Barra and South Uist where the Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in 1745 (7) |
