| BOBS | Brief curtseys; informal word for shillings; kite-tails; or, weights on pendulums or plumb lines (4) |
| BIAS | Prejudice; diagonal line or cut across the grain of a fabric; or, a bulge or weight on the side of a bowl (4) |
| SWAY | A physical back-and-forth to-and-fro rhythmical motion of a boat, dancer's hips, palm tree, pendulum or staggeringly squiffy reveller, playing the fool; or, preponderatingly weighty authority, control |
| LEVEL | Instrument with an air bubble designed to determine a horizontal or plumb line; an area of flat farmland; or, a section of a video game (5) |
| STREAMER | Kite tail, e.g. |
| BOB | Brief curtsey; hairstyle |
| DEAD | Like some phones or weights |
| MEASURES | Assesses dimensions or weights (8) |
| HEFTS | Weighs or weights |
| HOGS | Old slang for shillings; stiff nautical brushes for scrubbing the undersides of boats; Harley-Davidson motorbikes; yearling sheep; grunters, pigs, porkers or swine; or, coarse, greedy or inconsiderate |
| 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) |
| VIAL | A miniature bottle or ampoule for liquid medicines; or, a small spirit-filled glass tube containing an air bubble that centralises when perfectly horizontal or plumb (4) |
| FANS | Baskets formerly used for winnowing grain; handheld, often concertina-like devices, for creating currents of air; things resembling the latter, such as peacocks' spread tails; or, ardent admirers/devo |
| SASH | Traditional sliding window counterbalanced by lead weights on cords (4) |
| APES | Primates with short tails or no tail at all |
| BOLA | Cord with weights on each end |
| BOWS | Curtseys |
| AMOS | Plumb-line prophet |
| ARCS | Pendulums' paths |
| PLIE | Balletic curtsey |
