| BRICKRED | Pile of straw blocks raised a shade (5,3) |
| TRICKY | Thorny pile of straw in the outskirts of Tewkesbury |
| BEDS | Garden plots of cabbages or roses, e.g.; layers of oysters; or, cots, bunks, four-posters etc, originally dug-out lairs, hollows or piles of straw (4) |
| STACKS | Funnels for piles of straw maybe |
| THATCHER | Mark, a man of straw (8) |
| NUTHATCH | Creeping bird, name unknown, on a layer of straw (8) |
| CORNBABY | In 'Little Scotland', please note a man of straw (4-4) |
| STRICKEN | Showing great distress breaking up nest with stack of straw (8) |
| STRAWMAN | Man of straw |
| WHISK | A knot of rope fibres or a bundle of straw as a brush; or, a kitchen utensil used when making a roux, souffle, meringue or omelette (5) |
| PALLET | Word, derived from that of an artist's board for mixing colours, for a flat wooden blade for shaping clay; a mattress of straw; or, a platform moved with a fork-lift truck (6) |
| SKEP | From Old Norse for "bushel of grain", a word for a basket or hamper of wickerwork originally, later a beehive of straw (4) |
| PANAMA | A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown (6) |
| MOSESBASKET | A portable cradle for a baby, often made of straw or wicker (5,6) |
| TATAMI | Type of straw matting used as a floor covering in a Japanese home (6) |
| RUCHE | A flounce, frill or ruffle whose name derives from "tree bark" or from "beehive", latterly in allusion to the plaits of straw used to make a skep (5) |
| PEDALS | Word for the lower thicker parts of pieces of straw; plaits made of these; or, levers whose name, from "feet", indicates the extremities employed to operate them (6) |
| AWISP | "___ of straw were worth a thousand crowns":Shak. |
| BOATER | Style of straw hat traditionally with a striped grosgrain ribbon/band (6) |
| WISP | In the meadow I spotted a bit of straw (4) |
