| TOORIE | A word for the bobble or tuft on a bonnet (6) |
| TIE | Equality in score, also called a draw; item of neckwear worn with morning dress or a school blazer; or, a hair bobble or scrunchie (3) |
| KNIGHTHOOD | Kelvin given woolly thing to put on - a bonnet? It was an honour to have it (10) |
| BLOOPER | Bobble or fumble |
| ERROR | Bobble or overthrow |
| 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) |
| CATKIN | A tuft on a willow hazel, e.g. (6) |
| CLINIC | From the Greek for "bed", a word for the teaching of medicine at the bedside originally, later a private or specialist hospital for outpatients (6) |
| TARGET | A buckler or small round shield; or, an object with concentric rings used as a butt for shooting at, hence a word for the butt of criticism or ridicule (6) |
| CREDIT | Originally meaning "belief", a word for the time given for payment for something sold on trust; or, acknowledgement or praise (6) |
| NOETIC | From Greek for "perceive, think", a word for the activity or functioning of the intellect, aka cognition; or, the philosophical exercise of reason (6) |
| POMPOM | Decorative tuft on a hat (6) |
| TASSEL | Decorative tuft on a curtain (6) |
| THRUST | Sea lavender's cousin growing on wind-smitten cliffs, rocks, ocean-sprayed turf and shores; or, from "grasp, prosperity, success", a word for the act or art of frugality, parsimony or prudence (6) |
| CRESTS | Manes of horses; plumes or tufts of birds or helmets; identifying rings on arrows; or, tops of hills or waves (6) |
| RODEOS | Based on "go round, rotate, wheel", a word for the rounding up of cattle; pens holding said bovines; or, exhibitions of cowboy/girl skills (6) |
| BROODS | A word for the families of chicks that hatch from clutches or sittings of eggs at one birth; or, informally, large tribes of related children (6) |
| CRATER | From "mixing bowl", a word for the bowl-like mouth of a volcano (6) |
| PROMPT | Ready to put in a word for the actor (6) |
| TOP | Word for a carrot leaf; a circus tent; a crest or tuft; a lid; a teetotum; a T-shirt; or, the uppermost creamy layer of unhomogenised milk (3) |
