| HANDLE | Feel of a textile; CB user's call sign; or, the bail of a bucket or kettle (6) |
| BAIL | One of the two wooden crosspieces of a wicket; or, a hooped handle of a bucket or kettle (4) |
| STUMP | In cricket, any one of the three posts supporting the bails of a wicket (5) |
| LETTERING | The art of inscribing decorative alphabetic characters on books or signs; or, the graphemes impressed (9) |
| STUMPS | Foils the bail supporters (6) |
| SEMI | CB user's wheels |
| TEN | ___ code (CB user's slang) |
| FREDA | Paid the bail for a sound woman (5) |
| RADIOMAN | CB user on main road |
| TRIVET | A three-legged prop for a cooking pot or kettle; or, a low support for a hot dish or teapot on a table (6) |
| KICK | A back-heel of a ball, boot of a bucket or other strike with a foot; a gun's recoil; or, archaically, the fashion (4) |
| YANKEE | In a nod to earlier American transport, the call sign of the Apollo 12 command module was ____ Clipper |
| LADLES | Dippers for lifting gravy, sauce, soup etc from pots or tureens; or, buckets or pans used for transporting molten metal in a foundry (6) |
| ICEMAN | Call sign of Val Kilmer's Lieutenant Tom Kazansky in the 1986 action film Top Gun (6) |
| BAILOUT | Term meaning to clear a sinking ship of water by means of a bucket or ladle; escape an aircraft via an emergency parachute jump; rescue financially; save from a predicament; or, abandon an engagement |
| BECKON | Give the call sign (6) |
| MARINE | ___ One (call sign for the Presidential helicopter) |
| COROT | Son of a textile merchant and a milliner who painted the landscapes A Wagon in the Plains of Artois, Evening on the Lake and Summer Morning (5) |
| NAP | Raised surface fibres of a textile such as velvet; short name of a whist-like game; or, a tipster's chief fancy of the day in horse-racing (3) |
| IDENTS | Call signs cause damage within Daesh (6) |
