| COCKNEYS | East Londoners born within earshot of the Bow bells |
| COCKNEY | Name given to a Londoner born within the sound of the Bow bells (7) |
| CLOSET | Keeps The Suits in check within earshot of the leadership (6) |
| BOWBELLS | Tradition dictates that only those born within earshot of these can claim to be Cockneys (3,5) |
| SERFS | Rides the waves within earshot of vassals |
| CHEAPSIDE | Street in the City of London, famous for the Bow Bells of St Maryle-Bow church (9) |
| ISLEOFDOGS | Barking within earshot of this London area? (4, 2, 4) |
| MAUL | Handle roughly within earshot of busy shopping street (4) |
| EASTENDER | Someone born within the sound of Bow Bells? (4,5) |
| NEAR | Within earshot of |
| COLLEGNO | Musical direction to play the strings of an instrument by striking them with the back of the bow; Italian, 'with the wood' (3,5) |
| KYUDO | Meaning "way of the bow", the Japanese martial art of longbow archery (5) |
| KNEE | This bends the definition: born within the boundaries of Knightsbridge (4) |
| ANDY | Easy to use within the sound of Bow Bells (4) |
| ASCHAM | Author of Toxophilus ("Lover of the Bow") and The Schoolmaster who tutored Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I in their youth (6) |
| TREMOLO | In music, the rapid repetition of a single note produced by a back-and-forth movement of the bow on a string instrument (7) |
| HAWSE | Upper part of the bows of a ship which houses the holes through which the anchor ropes pass (5) |
| FORWARD | Send one's letters on in the direction of the bow (7) |
| ARBOUR | Leafy glade, place of refuge for east Londoners? (6) |
| FIELDING | A founder of the Bow Street Runners who wrote Tom Jones and a parody of Richardson's Pamela titled Shamela (8) |
