| LIFELINE | Diver's rope for sending signals to the water's surface; or, one of a hand's creases studied in palmistry (8) |
| LOOKMA | Start of a hands-off declaration? |
| HEYSIRI | Start of a hands-free call, maybe |
| SOCK | One of a hand-knitted pair |
| WHEEL | One of a hand truck's pair |
| UPLINK | What is a transmission path for sending signals from an earth station to a communication satellite (6) |
| ALDIS | ___ lamp - traditionally used for sending signals at sea (5) |
| CRISPATION | Dated or poetic state of being curled or wrinkled; a wavelet or undulation on the water's surface; or, a creeping shiver or rippling muscular sensation passing through the body (10) |
| REEF | A rocky ridge near the water's surface; or, in gold mining, a lode or vein of auriferous quartz (4) |
| SUNKEN | A non-buoyant person or thing; a doughnut in the US; a mistletoe root; or, a weight for carrying a fishing-line beneath the water's surface (6) |
| SPLASH | Disturbance on the water's surface caused by a diver or the launch of a ship; a leading front-page story; or, a film about a mermaid (6) |
| PUDDLE | A pool of rainwater; a ripple on the water's surface left by the blade of an oar; or, a curtain's train of fabric, spilling onto the floor (6) |
| UNDERTOW | A current beneath the water's surface; or, a hidden tendency (8) |
| RIPPLE | Little wave or undulation on the water's surface; or, ice cream swirled with raspberry syrup (6) |
| DABS | Bobs or daps on the water's surface when fishing for salmon or trout; or, chuckie-stanes, jacks, knuckle-bones or sheep's astragali tossed in a children's old game or bout (4) |
| CATSPAW | Nautical name for a pattern of ripples on the water's surface caused by a gust of wind; or, an offshore swivel knot (4-3) |
| LEMNA | Minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root. |
| DIPS | Gentle bobs or bounces of fishing flies onto the water's surface; the lures used; plimsolls; or, fist bumps (4) |
| PHYSIO | Ship factory has no craft job for a hands-on type of person having to deal with the strain (6) |
| RAFT | Artist on the paper takes to the waters (4) |
