| UPIN | Words before "smoke" or "the air" |
| HOLY | Word before "smokes" or "mackerel" |
| POUFFE | Scots or dialect word for blows, gusts, mild explosions, wafts or whiffs of air, dust, gunpowder, smoke or the like; shots; or, hairdressers' powder pads (6) |
| GASPER | A cheap smoke or the one smoking it? (6) |
| DENSE | Retreats before smoke finally becomes impenetrable |
| SERENE | From the Latin for "clear", a word used to mean fair, pure or unclouded, as of the sky or the air; calm, peaceful and tranquil; or, as part of a royal title, honoured (6) |
| CUSHIONS | Bumpers on the rails of snooker tables from which the balls rebound; or, the air-filled sections supporting hovercrafts (8) |
| GUST | An old word for the faculty of taste; flavour, gratification or relish; an abrupt gale or blast of air; or, any sudden rush/outburst, as in emotion fire, passion, rain, smoke or sound (4) |
| WISP | Small bundle or plait of hay or straw as a traditional means of polishing or strapping a horse; flock of snipe; a fine streak of smoke; or, a short word for the ignis fatuus (4) |
| WAFT | Word, similar to a weaving term, for an aroma, knotted signal flag, nonchalant wave or shoo with a hand, puff of smoke or a sound, all gently floating in or carried by the air (4) |
| WREATH | Circlet of seasonal winter greenery placed on a door or a table during the festive season; a niveous drift formed in a blizzard; or, a curl of smoke or cloud (6) |
| WISPS | Word for flocks of snipe; friars' lanterns; petite girls/slight boys; twists of hay or straw; small brooms; strands or streaks of hair or smoke; or, tufts (5) |
| FUMES | Exuded gas or smoke or vapour, especially when harmful or unpleasant (5) |
| REEST | Cure, smoke, or dry - especially meat or fish (5) |
| FLUE | Pipe for smoke or hot air |
| HORNITO | From the Spanish for "oven", what is a small mound of lava that can emit smoke or gas? (7) |
| AEROSOL | Colloidal dispersion of solid or liquid particles in a gas, such as smoke or fog |
| SMOG | Fog or haze intensified by smoke or other atmospheric pollutants (4) |
| CURLS | Chocolate "blossoms", eddies of water, twists of lemon zest, wreaths of smoke or other things likened to the shape of ringlets of hair (5) |
| EMERGENCYALARM | Alarm that senses smoke or fire |
