| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| MOULTED | Shed hair | |
| MOULT | To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed. | |
| LANUGO | The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth. | |
| SHED | To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves. | |
| DECIDUOUS | Falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in ... | |