Possible Clues:

• That's an open and shut example of overheads
• Protection against feline and canine onslaught?
• 'Let a smile be your ... ' (song)
• Cart to guillotine for beheading the French, which might be used during le déluge
• Lure lamb out of this portable shelter
• It protects one against a fall
• Cover against the elements
• Broadly embracing title of Mount's Pacific Tale
• Brit's ubiquitous tote
• Handled device to stop a fall