| COATED | Given a layer of something |
| BLANKET | From the Old French for "white", a bedcover or manta; or, a layer of something such as bluebells, cloud, fog, snow or whale blubber (7) |
| SURFACE | The outside layer of something (7) |
| TRAY | A thin insert for a layer of chocolates in a box, a toaster's shallow crumb drawer, a metal sheet on which to bake biscuits or a silver salver for drinks, each named for their likeness to a treen boar |
| VEIL | Part of a nun's headdress; piece of tulle, organza, lace or net to conceal a bride's face; or, something that obscures, such as a layer of mist (4) |
| CLAMP | Type of vice for a workbench; device for immobilising a vehicle; or, a heap of root vegetables stored under a layer of earth or straw (5) |
| COAT | An animal's fur or pelt; a single application of paint or nail polish; a layer of a plant bulb; or, a long garment such as a redingote (4) |
| FREEZE | Word for a layer of icy dew; a period of said frost or of cold subzero weather; or, alluding to the motionless ice, a halt, stoppage or wage fix (6) |
| BED | A berth, bunk, palliasse, shakedown etc, such as Shakespeare's "second- best" example which he bequeathed to his wife; or, something thusly flat, such as a garden plot of roses, a layer of oysters or |
| LINED | Covered the inside surface of a garment, a box, etc. with a layer of usually different material |
| TOPPING | An old-fashioned way of saying "ripping" or "splendid"; the opposite of "tailing" when prepping vegetables; or, a layer of breadcrumbs, cheese, crumble or dough upon a gratin, pizza, rhubarb pudding o |
| LINE | Rule; underscore / cover the inside surface of a garment with a layer of another material |
| SCUM | A layer of impure matter that forms on the surface of a liquid (4) |
| CARPET | Word originally for a tablecloth or bedcover that came to mean a woven floor covering or a layer of flowers or snow resembling thus (6) |
| HOTPOT | What is a casserole of meat and vegetables covered with a layer of potatoes? (6) |
| DAMP | ____ course, a layer of waterproof material in the wall of a building near the ground (4) |
| GARIBALDI | A type of biscuit with a layer of currants in the centre |
| ICESHEET | A layer of frozen water covering a wide area of land (3,5) |
| INTONACO | A layer of fine wet lime plaster laid in sections or "giornate" over the rougher "arriccio" as the final painting surface of a fresco (8) |
| TIER | A layer of a multi-layered cake (4) |
