| ATMOSPHERE | Blanket of gravitationallybound life-sustaining gases comprising a series of layers surrounding Earth (10) |
| CORONA | Gaseous layer surrounding the sun |
| VERTICAL | Window cover comprising a series of upright ships, blind |
| REGATTA | From the Venetian meaning "fight" or "contest", an event comprising a series of boat races, such as either one held annually at Henley or Cowes (7) |
| AIR | Name for the mixture of gases comprising the Earth's atmosphere. (3) |
| COAT | A fleece, pelage or pelt; or, any other outer covering, such as an application of paint/varnish, blanket of dust, husk of a seed, jacket, layer of a bulb or top of a suit of armour (4) |
| STRATA | New start on a series of layers |
| SNOW | A fall or blanket of ice crystals; a lemon- or vanilla-flavoured pudding resembling such; a winter; or, a whitefleshed variety of apple (4) |
| WOODLAND | Considered ancient if arboraceous since 1600, a sylvan type of habitat with seasonal blankets of snowdrops, carpets of bluebells and cushions of moss under a canopy of ash, beech, chestnut, oak and/or |
| DRIFT | Blanket of snowdrops, daffodils, bluebells or other flowers; a cattle drove road; a set of fishing nets; or, a collective noun for swans on water (5) |
| MOSSSTITCH | Term for a mode of knitting alternate plain and purl loops so as to create a texture like a carpet or blanket of woodland bryophyte (4,6) |
| COVER | Jacket of a book; or the top blanket of a bed (5) |
| ANKLE | A group of 11s drank less after removing a couple of layers of clothing (5) |
| MILLEFEUILLE | A rich confection of layers of puff pastry with a filling typically of jam or cream (12) |
| ISEE | Counting Crows "When ___ you, a blanket of stars covers me in my bed" |
| SHEET | Is there one of ice under the blanket of snow? (5) |
| SHEETOFICE | Would you find it under a blanket of snow? (5,2,3) |
| STRATUS | Latin word for a blanket of grey cloud forming at low altitude (7) |
| VITAL | Critical; life-sustaining (5) |
| BLEED | Lose life-sustaining fluid (5) |
