| WADS | Balls of paper |
| PELLETS | Small compressed balls of paper, bread, etc. / pills |
| WAD | Ball of paper or gum |
| WADDED | Made a ball of paper |
| PELLET | Small compressed ball of paper, bread, etc. / pill |
| SWING | The compass or sweep of a golf club, pendulum, trapeze or of one of the balls of a Newton's cradle (5) |
| PADS | Balls of something, i. e. cotton, crumpled paper / large amounts of money |
| SUSHI | A Japanese dish of cold balls of vinegared rice, usually garnished with slices of fish or egg (5) |
| FLOATS | Buoyant things, such as the balls of ballcocks, corks/quills of fishing-lines, dolphins for mooring, lifebelts, rafts or scoops of ice cream in cola (6) |
| DUMPLINGS | Get rid of fish, first piece of steak and balls of dough (9) |
| CONFETTI | From Italian for "bonbons", word for little sweets or exploding white-cloud-forming balls of plaster flung at carnivals originally, later for pieces of colourful fluttering paper thrown over brides/gr |
| RYDER | Winona of "Great Balls of Fire!" |
| STARTS | Origins of temperature in great balls of fire (6) |
| JERRYLEELEWIS | "Great Balls of Fire" singer who was a charter inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 3 wds. |
| BOBA | Variety of cold tea containing balls of pearl tapioca, originating in Taiwan in the 1980s (4) |
| FALAFEL | What Middle Eastern dish consists of deep-fried balls of mashed chickpeas? (7) |
| ROMANCANDLE | Slow-burning cylindrical firework that emits a continuous shower of sparks punctuated by coloured balls of fire (5,6) |
| ROMANCANDLES | Fireworks that produce a continuous shower of sparks punctuated by coloured balls of fire (5,7) |
| SNOW | What a cool guy!: Frosty was made of three giant balls of ___* |
| PILLS | Word for boluses of medicine that also means balls of fluff (5) |
