| GOATEE | Tuft-like pointed beard (6) |
| AWL | A bodkin- or gimlet-like pointed instrument used by a binder, cobbler, leather-crafter, saddler, sailmaker, tailor, weaver or woodworker to pierce, scratch, scribe or stitch (3) |
| TASSEL | Tuft-like ornament with a variety of uses such as a key fob, curtain tie or to decorate a loafer, mortarboard or keffiyeh headdress (6) |
| TOATEE | Head teacher shaving left hand side of pointed beard perfectly |
| FLOC | Tuft-like mass |
| VANDYKE | Flemish painter with short pointed beard (7) |
| GOATEED | Having a pointed beard |
| IMPERIAL | Magnificent; small pointed beard |
| GOATEES | Pointed beards (7) |
| SWITCH | Tassel-like tuft on the tip of a cow's tail; a device for opening or closing a circuit; or a whisk for whipping cream or eggs (6) |
| CIRRUS | Beautiful high-altitude cloud in the form of a curl, tendril, tuft or mare's-tail-like wisp of frozen crystals, often signalling weather changes (6) |
| PLUMED | Having ornamental tuft (6) |
| POMPOM | Twice, returned clean cheerleader's tuft (6) |
| HANKIE | Tuft that is forming small cloth (6) |
| DALLOP | A tuft of grass or weeds (6) |
| CATKIN | A tuft on a willow hazel, e.g. (6) |
| BIGWIG | Rabbit in Richard Adams' Watership Down with a tuft of hair on his head (6) |
| TOORIE | Derived from the Scottish meaning "small tower", a word for the bobble, pompom, tassel or tuft on a bonnet or Tam o' Shanter (6) |
| 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, |
| STRAND | Tuft |
