| PAWED | Played with, as a ball of yarn |
| PAWEDAT | Played with, as a ball of yarn |
| UNRAVEL | Take apart, as a ball of twine |
| TWIRLED | Played with, as a mustache |
| SPUN | Played with, as a dreidel |
| CATS | Pets who can have a ball with a ball of yarn |
| PAW | What a cat pushes a ball of yarn around with |
| KITTYCAT | One playing with a ball of yarn, perhaps |
| FELINEITEMVETO | Cat's snub of a ball of yarn? |
| CLEW | A ball of yarn, cord or thread (4) |
| CAT | Pet that might bat a ball of yarn |
| PURL | Pixar short about a ball of yarn |
| CATSPAW | It may bat at a ball of yarn (4,3) |
| BOUNCE | Imitative word for a heavy blow or thump originally, later a jump, leap or spring; the recoil of an object, such as a ball; bluster, confidence or swagger; a boom; a lie; vitality or zip; or, body and |
| SKEIN | A V-shaped group of geese or swans in flight; also a wound ball of yarn (5) |
| POMPOM | Ball of yarn with tangle of hair twice brushed up (6) |
| TOYED | Played (with), as an idea |
| TOY | Ball of yarn to a cat |
| POMANDER | From "apple of amber", a ball of aromatics once carried as a putative preservative against infection (8) |
| YARN | Lots of kitties love to play with a ball of this |
