| 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) |
| SKIN | Human body's natural covering; or, a layer forming on the surface of warm milk, custard or gravy (4) |
| RAGRUGS | Floor coverings or mats made from a veritable patchwork of torn strips of fabric or scraps of old cloth (3,4) |
| PERSIANCARPET | Parents price a woven floor covering (7,6) |
| RUGS | Floor coverings; or, garments for horses and ponies (4) |
| QUILT | A thick coverlet or bedcover (5) |
| APRON | A word for a tablecloth in the Middle Ages, later a pinafore, placket, tablier or other such barm-cloth (5) |
| LINEN | Fine fabric for a tablecloth |
| PANE | Word originally for a rag or a piece of cloth that later came to mean a division of a window or its sheet of glass; or, in philately, a page of stamps from a booklet (4) |
| STRIKE | Anglo-Saxon word for "to go or flow" or "to rub lightly" that came to mean a hit; an attack by aircraft; a raid; a find, as in gold, luck or oil; or, a downing of work tools in protest (6) |
| CAGE | Word for a hollow that came to mean a basket for fowls, a bottle-holder, a coop, a corf, a hutch, a netted goal, a prison cell or a squirrel's drey (4) |
| VEIL | Old word for a covering or curtain; the headdress of a nun or a bride; or, anything that conceals, disguises or obscures, such as a facade, mask, pretence or a shroud of mist (4) |
| JUMPER | Word for a sailor's loose outer jacket that came to mean a woollen jersey in the UK or a pinafore dress in the US; a quarry drill; a crude sled; or, a horse for puissance, e.g. (6) |
| TAPER | Anglo-Saxon word for any wax candle that came to mean a long thin waxed wick or spill for transferring a flame; a gradual narrowing or reduction; or, a dim or feeble light (5) |
| AMORET | Old word of French origin for a sweetheart that came to mean a sonnet or love-song; a love-knot; a romantic glance; or, a trifling affair (6) |
| GLAZE | Word for eggwash on pastry, enamel on metalwork, flambe or lustre on pottery, sugar-coating on cakes or other glossy, smooth or vitreous finish; or, a layer of frost or ice (5) |
| SNOB | Word originally for a cobbler that came to mean a person of ordinary status, a townsman as opposed to Cambridge gownsman or an elitist (4) |
| TINCTURE | Word for a dye or pigment that, from the sense "imparted quality", came to mean a pharmaceutical or medicinal extract; an alcoholic drink; or, a slight aroma, flavour or trace (8) |
| BLANKET | From the Old French for "white", a bedcover or manta; or, a layer of something such as bluebells, cloud, fog, snow or whale blubber (7) |
| TOPPING | An old-fashioned way of saying "ripping" or "splendid"; the opposite of "tailing" when prepping vegetables; or, a layer of breadcrumbs, cheese, crumble or dough upon a gratin, pizza, rhubarb pudding o |
