| IER | Hair or perk add on |
| PLUS | Symbol +, opposite to - minus; a positive quality/quantity; or, a bonus or perk, as opposed to a negative (4) |
| HIGHLIGHTS | The best or most memorable parts of sporting or other events; blonde streaks or tints in the hair; or, bright or illuminated areas in images, paintings or pictures (10) |
| FRINGE | A border of loose threads, tassels or twists; hair or "bangs" falling over one's brow; non-mainstream theatre; or, a bright or dark band produced by diffraction or interference of light (6) |
| RAGS | Scraps or oddments of cloth for making rugs and dolls, curling the hair or cleaning; informal word for tabloids; sails or tattered clothes; or, herds of colts (4) |
| STRAND | Single length of something such as yarn, hair or threaded pearls or beads; or, a beach or shore (6) |
| CLUMPS | Small groups of ferns, grasses or trees; compact masses of hair or mud; extra-thick soles of boots or shoes; heavy treads; or, dull thuds (6) |
| SALUT | Word, from Dutch for "break up a ship on rocks", for a crack, rent, rip or tear, such as that of an idiomatic hair; or, in another sense, a cream-and-jam-filled Cornish or Devonshire bun (5) |
| MAT | A border of colour, dull gold or white as a contrast between a picture and its frame; a tangled mass of hair or weeds; a coaster or small rug; a web of rope yarn; a cover for a tea chest; or, the soli |
| WISPS | Word for flocks of snipe; friars' lanterns; petite girls/slight boys; twists of hay or straw; small brooms; strands or streaks of hair or smoke; or, tufts (5) |
| HENNA | Red dye from a flowering shrub, it may be used on the hair or to make ornate patterns on the skin |
| CRIMP | A kink/wave in hair or wool fibres; a pinch in the edge of a pie's pastry crust; or, a connector for a length of beading thread, cable or wire (5) |
| TUFTS | Golden tassels formerly worn on titled Oxbridge undergraduates' caps and "hunted" by toadying social climbers; or, bunched clusters of feathers, grass, hair or threads (5) |
| COMB | A toothed strip of tortoiseshell or wood for neatening unkempt hair; or, something similarly serrated, such as the crest of a cockerel or hen (4) |
| BRISTLING | Standing on end (hair or fur) (9) |
| BODY | What might have hair, or what hair might have |
| DYE | Add colour to (hair or clothing, eg) |
| TOPKNOT | Crest of hair or feathers on the crown of the head (7) |
| FELT | Sensed / fabric of wool, often mixed with fur or hair, or cotton, rayon |
| OMBRE | Trick-taking card game with a name derived from the Spanish for "man"; or, a dip-dye effect for hair or textiles (5) |
