| EELPOUT | In Bow a chap'll look sullen, we're told, given fish |
| CUED | Lined up as told, given signal |
| TOWNIE | Individual in Bow, a city type |
| YARDMAN | Yankee bruiser in Bow, a worker on the tracks |
| SCRAPE | An act of raking, rasping or rubbing; a graze; a stroke of a pen or a violin bow; a fiddler; a shave; a barber; a grating sound; a mass razed up by a rabbit; a scuffle; or, a thin spread of butter (6) |
| BEND | Curved shape of a bow; a meander in a river; a half-butt of leather; or, a type of knot for joining two ropes together (4) |
| SCRAPS | A graze; a scuffle; a backward slide of a foot accompanying a bow; a hare's form; or, cheap butter (6) |
| RISER | Vertical part of a step; main body of a bow; a strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines; or, a type of Manx cat (5) |
| STRING | Cord of an archery bow; a "wire" of a violin; fibrous strip of a runner bean; or, a series of linked sausages (6) |
| SWAG | A bend or bow; a burglar's bulging bag of booty or boodle; a beautifying botanical band or bays of berries, blooms, bracts or buds; or, a bushman's bedroll or bundle of belongings (4) |
| POUT | May look sullen as a fish (4) |
| CURTSY | Equivalent to a man or boy's bow, a woman or girl's formal genuflection as a traditional way to greet the Queen (6) |
| ARC | From the Latin meaning "bow", a part of a circle's circumference (3) |
| LIMB | Part of a bow, a projecting part (4) |
| HANDSHAKE | Workers given fish - a gesture of goodwill (9) |
| REPROACH | Rebuke a salesperson given fish (8) |
| TAIAHA | Staff given fish - what a surprise! |
| DOLOUR | Look sullen on the outside, showing a feeling of sadness |
| EPSOM | Look sullen on reflection bagging second in racing venue (5) |
| LOWER | Look sullen when in an inferior position (5) |
