| ADDSON | Words for a favorite |
| ODDS | They're short for a favorite |
| BASS | One of the words for a flax, hemp, jute or lime fibre bag for holding an angler's fish; a powerful sea perch with a brilliant silver body; or, from "low", the lowest part in music or the deepest male |
| HAYMOW | Attention-getting words for a stooge from a speaker stack up in a barn? (6) |
| BEVY | One of the words for a company of otters or roe deer, or for a flock of doves, larks, quail or swans (4) |
| PASTILLE | A cone or pellet of aromatics or herbs burnt as incense; a lozenge or sweet; or, one of the words for a crayon-like stick of pigment (8) |
| TENDERHAND | Hand a player is wary or afraid of betting, one that is a favorite on the pot, but vulnerable to a r |
| BET | A favorite is a good one |
| FANART | Drawings of a favorite character, for example |
| ERA | A Swiftie might have a favorite one |
| LYRICIST | A person who writes the words for a song (8) |
| HONEYPOT | Norfolk wood that sounds like a sweet food container but that was actually named after the medieval words for a sewage dump! (8) |
| PARCEL | Portion of land; or, one of the words for a group of penguins other than a waddle, huddle or creche (6) |
| FLIGHT | Tail of a dart; series of steps or canal locks; or, one of the words for a flock of doves or swallows (6) |
| CORNETTO | One of the words for a woodwind instrument that shares its name with a brand of ice cream (8) |
| CARBONADE | A black diamond; or, one of the words for a stew of beef cooked in beer (9) |
| CARBONADO | A black diamond; or, one of the words for a stew of beef cooked in beer (9) |
| SEDGE | Studied in caricology, a grass-like plant of the wetland habits often frequented by bitterns or herons, hence one of the whimsical words for a collective wedge of said waders (5) |
| CAROL | One of the fanciful words for a collective blush, breast, gift, reliant or ruby of robins; an old English ring dance; the fluted ballad accompanying it; or, a hymn of joy, aka noel, that is chanted in |
| DOGEARED | Like a well-read page in a favorite book |
