| POMANDER | How to name-drop with a ball of scent (8) |
| KITTYCAT | One playing with a ball of yarn, perhaps |
| NOMINATE | How to name a Tom - nine letters (8) |
| ALPACINO | Star of "Scent of a Woman"A |
| FREEFALL | Costs nothing to drop with parachute unopen! (4,4) |
| PARDONME | Name-drop outrageously? I do apologise (6,2) |
| SWEETPEA | With varieties including vintage silk, clouds of scent and blue velvet, a plant with pastel-coloured flowers grown on wigwams in the summer (5,3) |
| ATOMISER | A moister sort of scent spray (8) |
| LAVENDER | Learned about taking volume of scent (8) |
| DRAGEE | Cake decoration in the form of a tiny silver ball or bead; sugar-coated nut; chocolate drop with a candy shell; or, a medicated sweet (6) |
| YARN | Lots of kitties love to play with a ball of this |
| CATS | Pets who can have a ball with a ball of yarn |
| DRINK | For example small drop with a lot of ice! |
| ARIADNE | Daughter of Minos and Pasiphae who helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with a ball of thread (7) |
| POMPON | Style of dahlia, chrysanthemum or aster flower with a ball of small tightly clustered petals (6) |
| PELLET | Race around the French with a ball of shot (6) |
| CLEW | Old word for a ball of yam; thread as a guide out of a maze/labyrinth; lower corner of a sail; or, one of the cords by which a hammock is suspended (4) |
| DRAMACRITIC | Review writer has wee drop with a detractor (5,6) |
| PLAP | Drop with a flat sound (4) |
| EYELASH | Spoken confession of dominatrix maybe one drops with a wink |
