### Clue: Handy aid to warmth (4)
### Answer: MUFF 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Handy aid to warmth
  Cryptic defn: Tubular case covered with fur or warm material as an aid to keeping hands warm, primarily.  Not to be confused with the later eary aids.  A secondary purpose was as a handbag, or perhaps to conceal a weapon – I distinctly recall Lara (Julie Christie) pulling out a gun from her muff to shoot Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) in Doctor Zhivago.