| FOXTAIL | The brush of a reynard, tod or vixen; or, a pasture grass with flower spikes resembling thus (3-4) |
| FOXHOLE | A burrow or earth of a proverbially cunning brush-tailed vulpine known as a reynard, tod or vixen; a small military entrenchment; or, any other place of concealment or refuge (7) |
| REDFOX | Reynard, tod or vixen with a ruddy or rufescent coat, Vulpes vulpes (3,3) |
| TREFOIL | Three-leaved clover, black medick or a plant in the Lotus genus such as bacon-and-eggs; or, an ornament resembling thus in heraldry or Gothic tracery (7) |
| RATTLES | Chatterers; crackling noises of paper; dice-boxes; maracas, shakers or toys resembling thus; or, watchmens' instruments formerly used to produce whirring sounds (7) |
| MUSCARI | Species of Liriope (lily turf) with flower spikes like grape hyacinth (7) |
| PENCIL | From "tail", a painter's fine brush of hair, like a tuft at the end of such a scut; a stick of wood-encased blacklead/ graphite or chalk with which to delineate, doodle, hatch, scribble or write; or, |
| BOGBEAN | Wetland plant with flower spikes... Bo began to twist round (7) |
| FOXCUB | A baby Reynard, infant vulpine, teeny tod or other brush-tailed den-dwelling kit of a vixen (3,3) |
| STILT | Either of a pair of heightincreasing poles worn by clowns or hop-pickers; or, a wading bird with long slender legs resembling thus (5) |
| CARPET | Word originally for a tablecloth or bedcover that came to mean a woven floor covering or a layer of flowers or snow resembling thus (6) |
| TRUFFLES | Fungi considered a delicacy, often found with the help of dogs or pigs; or, cocoa-dusted chocolate ganache confections resembling thus (8) |
| ALFALFA | Legume in a pasture |
| SPRAYS | Small bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages or nosegays of flowers and foliage; ornamental brooches resembling thus; or, clouds of flying droplets of scent or water (6) |
| WHISK | A cream-whipping, egg-beating, mousse-frothing utensil modelled on a besom of twigs or brush of hay (5) |
| TWIGLETS | Very small branches of trees; or, knobbly snacks resembling thus with a Marmite-like taste (8) |
| TAU | 19th Greek letter; or, a Saint Anthony's cross resembling thus (3) |
| WAVE | Single brush of the ocean against the shore |
| GRAMMA | Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America. |
| RYE | Type of pasture grass, Wimmera - (3) |
