| REO | Flying Cloud or Royale |
| ISLE | Anglesey or Royale |
| RAINBOW | Arc-en-ciel or similar spectrum of colours; or, another word for a cloud or kaleidoscope of butterflies (7) |
| WREATH | A bank of snow; a curl of cloud or smoke; a circlet of seasonal flora and evergreen foliage hung on one's door at Christmas or set with candles to represent four weeks of Advent; or, a band of twisted |
| GNAT | Any one of a myriad of midge- or mozzie-like flies abounding in a cloud; or, a person who is comparably as annoying, insignificant or tiny (4) |
| CIRRUS | From "curl, lock of hair", word for the wispy white or feathery clouds or "mare's tails" of frozen crystals forming at high altitude and responsible for halos around the Sun or the Moon; or, in botany |
| SHEET | Unit of postage stamps off the press; literary word for a sail; or, a broad expanse of cloud or rain (5) |
| SCUD | Driving cloud or rain shower; a gust; or, school slang for a fast runner (4) |
| STORAGE | Retention of data on a hard disc or digital cloud; or, space in a warehouse for holding business stock, personal belongings etc (7) |
| BILLOW | Conceptually connected to "belly, bulge", a large cloud or great sea wave; or, poetically, the ocean itself (6) |
| OMEN | Black cloud or black cat, to some |
| WAR | Word before cloud or cry |
| WISP | Small thin line of cloud or smoke (4) |
| HAZE | Fine cloud or mistiness (4) |
| STORM | Word before cloud or cellar |
| SAVE | Store on the cloud or in the bank |
| REOS | Autos that included the Royale and Flying Cloud |
| RAINSTORM | One of the downsides of The Cloud or that's part of the forecast (9) |
| FILMS | Like gauze, like a cloud - or like moving pictures? (5) |
| COMETS | Originating in the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt, bodies with icy nuclei (6) |
