Possible Clues:

• What may all hang down, but not so much at the up
• A hanging ornament
• Commencement dangler
• Not so much at the turn does it hang
• It's hanging not so much at the turn
• Going down it hangs, but not so much on the way up
• With 18 down, this might be hanging back at the start
• Decorative tuft of threads
• 'Tuft' becoming 'uft' when written up?
• Ecdysiast's accouterment