| OBEISANCE | A bow or act of reverence (9) |
| COURTSHOE | Formal footwear, sometimes with a bow or buckle |
| BECK | Northern English word, of Old Norse origin, for a brook or a stream with a stony bed; a summoning nod, wave or forefinger gesture; or, Scots dialect for a bow or a curtsey (4) |
| DETENTION | Banishment or act of keeping in custody |
| ARCHERY | Skill or sport of shooting with a bow; or, a company of toxophilites or their weapons collectively (7) |
| TWANG | Onomatopoeic word for the plucked or pulled string of a bow or guitar; or, a local intonation (5) |
| STERN | Isaac with a bow (or the opposite of bow) |
| GENUFLECT | To bend one or both knees as a sign of reverence, especially in church (9) |
| VENERABLE | In a way, that rebel Evan is worthy of reverence (9) |
| ARC | Word for a bow or a curve and one from which the name for a toxophilite, aka bowman/woman, derives (3) |
| STRUNG | Like a bow or a racket |
| STRING | Word originally for a rope/strand of any thickness, later a thin length of twine; the cord of an archery bow; or, a stretched piece of catgut or wire for a cello, guitar, piano or violin (6) |
| MOMENTOFSILENCE | Act of reverence |
| WORSHIP | Act of reverence (7) |
| ADMIRABLE | Worthy of reverence and esteem (9) |
| TIE | Make a bow or knot in (3) |
| ABOBORTWO | Renovating bow or boat? It needs no small sum (1,3,2,3) |
| NOD | A slight bow or dip of the head; a sway of a flower in a breeze; or, alluding to a Genesiac land, a nap (3) |
| ADDRESS | Archaic word for an amorous advance or act of wooing; a speech or written communication; one's manner of speaking; or, the place one lives (7) |
| SAROD | Indian stringed musical instrument that may be played with a bow or plucked (5) |
