| SHAMPOO | It might be next to a bar of soap |
| HARDTOHOLD | It's difficult to get stolen gear back - anything antique to a bar of soap, for instance (4,2,4) |
| HEAVEHO | He's next to a bar, temperature becoming hot, getting rejection (5-2) |
| WASHERS | They might be next to nuts |
| TRASHCAN | It might be next to a recycling bin |
| SNARE | It might be next to a high hat |
| SWING | It might be next to a slide |
| STRAWDISPENSER | It might be next to a napkin holder |
| MEASURE | Quantity; unit such as a yard or a foot; a bar of music; an old word for a dance; or, poetic rhythm (7) |
| TABLETS | Little bars of soap; or, tokens once giving authority for trains to proceed over a single-track line, still used on some of the UK's heritage railways (7) |
| STOCKINGFILLER | One of a series of gifts placed in a sock at Christmas such as a bar of soap, bath cube, clementine, chocolate coin, monogrammed handkerchief ... (8,6) |
| ABANDON | Leave to go to a bar, you assume (7) |
| LAMP | Floor ___ (source of illumination that might be next to a sofa) |
| HEAVETO | Stop a man going to a bar (5,2) |
| NDRIDELOT | One might be next to a train station |
| SEESAW | One might be next to a swing |
| SANDBAR | A bar of sand. |
| QUEENVICTORIA | Former monarch gets a bar of soap (5,8) |
| CROW | Short word for a bar of iron with a beak-like end; the triumphant caw of a cockerel; the joyful cry of a baby or of a boastful person; or, a small raven-like bird with a raucous call (4) |
| NANAIMO | Vancouver Island city that lends its name to a bar cookie |
