| ROADIE | Informal word for a technician who travels with a band on tour; or, a wheeler who rides on highways as opposed to cross-country trails (6) |
| OPERATOR | A telephonist or other technician; a symbol indicating a mathematical function; a trader; a mover; or, a wheeler-dealer (8) |
| EMBED | Journalist who travels with a military unit while covering it |
| CHAINREACTION | Complicated for a technician, unleashing loud chemical process? |
| ATOI | Yours, in Tours (or a Greek letter back-ward) |
| TOUR | Travel with a band |
| ELLEN | WHEELER WHO PLAYED MARLEY/VICKY TO TOM |
| ZACK | Phillies pitcher Wheeler who was the National League's strikeout leader in 2021 |
| ABANDON | Leave with a band, on tour (7) |
| BIKE | Informal word for a velocipede powered by a wheeler or imagined as the transport of a swarm of bees (4) |
| JUNKET | A rush fish-basket; rennet custard or cream cheese, originally laid on rushes or made in such a creel; or, a banquet, beano, business trip, feast, picnic, politician's tour or other jaunt (6) |
| FAN | Person who might follow a band on tour |
| ROCKUMENTARIES | Films that may follow a band on tour |
| GRIP | Hair slide; travel bag; or, a technician responsible for handling camera equipment on a film set (4) |
| SOUNDENGINEER | A technician dealing with acoustics for a broadcast or musical performance (5,8) |
| COCKAHOOP | Put up with a band on cloud nine |
| ESCORT | A person who travels with someone in order to protect or guard them (6) |
| GUIDE | Handbook; signpost; or, a leader of a sightseeing tour or expedition (5) |
| GUARD | One who rides on and is in general charge of a train (5) |
| WITCH | Scary fairy tale character who rides on a broomstick (5) |
