| QUILTING | The creative pursuit of crafting a layered or patchworked comforter, counterpane, coverlet or puff; the cloth, padding or pattern of stitching used; or, the work fabricated (8) |
| QUILT | Word for a stuffed mattress first, later a layered, padded or stuffed often patchworked coverlet for said bed, biscuit or palliasse (5) |
| FELTPRIDE | Result of crafting a fine fedora? |
| BEDSPREAD | Counterpane, coverlet (9) |
| ONYX | Layered or lined gemstone |
| RUBIO | US secretary of state who was in Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron about crafting a Ukraine ceasefire.(Last Name) (5) |
| BLOW | Word for a gust or puff of wind; an act of getting some fresh air; a wallop; a display of blossom; a jazz jam or rock session; a blast on a trumpet or whistle; or, a hurried departure (4) |
| WHIFF | Word for a slight gust or puff; a waft or wave of odour; an inhalation of tobacco smoke; a small cigar; a flag hoisted as a signal; a narrow outrigger; an expulsion of shot; or, a jiffy (5) |
| PANT | Word for a gasp, huff or puff ; a throb of the heart; a heave of the chest; or, a Scottish public drinking fountain (4) |
| PINWHEEL | A revolving firework; a whirl-like sandwich or puff-pastry savoury; a paper windmill or whirligig; Haworth's aeonium; or, an escapement for lifting the hammer of a striking clock (8) |
| CHOU | French word for a cabbage; a cream bun or puff; a soft ornamental rosette; or, a term of endearment, akin to darling or dear (4) |
| VOLAUVENT | A small appetising bouchee, croustade, pie or puff with a savoury filling, whose name, from "flight in the wind" or "windblown", refers to the lightness of the pastry (3-2-4) |
| DIRECTOR | A member of a company's board; or, a film-maker who manages the creative aspects of a movie (8) |
| VIRTUOSO | Meaning "learned, skilful", an Italian word for a consummately talented musician; one with masterly skill in any other creative pursuit; or, a collector, connoisseur or dilettante of antiquities, art, |
| ART | Word simply for skill first, now the product of a creative pursuit, such as animation, painting or zincography (3) |
| RUG | From "coarse cloth, ruffled hair, woollen stuff", word for a thick coverlet first, later a small carpet; a large mat; a horse's blanket; or, a toupee/wig (3) |
| METALWORK | Skill or art of crafting objects from gold, silver, iron or similar materials (9) |
| KNICKERBOCKER | ____ glory, a layered ice cream sundae served in a tall glass and eaten with a long spoon (13) |
| BRAINDRAIN | The process by which the creative, entrepreneurial and intellectual skills of a nation are siphoned |
| ISOPLETH | The line from the meteorologist's office is - half the creative work is left to the layout (8) |
