Something worn by the answer to each starred clue, as represented graphically in this puzzle's grid

Usage examples of tophat.

Signer Canova had had time to toss his gleaming tophat vanishing behind him and bow to the amazed and stormlike staccato of adulant palms and turn and stride once or twice and then himself vanish from the pacing spotlightgone, to be seen no more.

Nicholas edged past the concierge, who was bargaining room rates with a lady of the night and her tophatted client.