| WAVELET | A ripple |
| CURL | A ringlet; an eddy; a ripple effect or "flame" in wood; an instance of sliding a granite or stone on ice; or, a weightlifting exercise performed with a barbell or a dumb-bell (4) |
| PUDDLE | Word for a little ditch originally, later a small muddy pool of rainwater; a wet mixture of clay and sand; or, a ripple, left by the blade of an oar (6) |
| EDDY | Way more than a bit of a ripple |
| KNIFED | Barely made a ripple in, as during a dive |
| MOIRE | Fabric with a ripple |
| PURL | Movement with a ripple |
| DOMINO | One in a ripple |
| MAKESWAVES | Has a ripple effect? |
| PLOP | Sound preceding a ripple, perhaps |
| WAVEFRONT | Any one of the concentric circles in a ripple, in physics |
| TIPPLER | If there's a ripple in the tea, the drinker will find it! (7) |
| APPLIER | Tool for putting on make-up could create a ripple (7) |
| FLATASA | A god involved in heinous act as entering bar, not a ripple to be seen (4,2,1,7) |
| PLACID | Not having so much as a ripple |
| ICECREAM | A somewhat oxymoronic name for a frozen-yet-soft scoopable dairy pudding with butterscotch, chocolate, pistachio, raspberry ripple, rum and raisin, strawberry or toffee pecan varieties served from a p |
| RING | A circular ripple; a marriage token; or, one of the flat crowds of ice, rocks and moonlets orbiting Saturn (4) |
| CATSPAW | Puppet; rope hitch designed to bear a hook; ripple; Australian plant (7) |
| RFK | Who said "Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope," briefly |
| TREX | Creature causing water to ripple in a famous "Jurassic Park" scene |
