| TAKEA | Lead-in to bow or hike |
| ASCENT | A climb or hike to the summit of a mountain, or; a bike ride up a col (6) |
| PATH | Place to bike or hike |
| HOKIER | More sentimental than dash or hike (6) |
| NOD | A slight bow or dip of the head; a sway of a flower in a breeze; or, alluding to a Genesiac land, a nap (3) |
| BECK | Northern English word, of Old Norse origin, for a brook or a stream with a stony bed; a summoning nod, wave or forefinger gesture; or, Scots dialect for a bow or a curtsey (4) |
| EALING | On the mend in Bow, or somewhere else in London? |
| RUNNER | One in a hurry to get to Bow street? (6) |
| LOOP | Coil of yarn, thread, ribbon etc forming a stitch, knot, bow or picot; a closed path in topology; or, an aerobatic manoeuvre (4) |
| ARCHERY | Skill or sport of shooting with a bow; or, a company of toxophilites or their weapons collectively (7) |
| TWANG | Onomatopoeic word for the plucked or pulled string of a bow or guitar; or, a local intonation (5) |
| STRING | Word originally for a rope/strand of any thickness, later a thin length of twine; the cord of an archery bow; or, a stretched piece of catgut or wire for a cello, guitar, piano or violin (6) |
| STERN | The rear of a boat or ship, opposite the bow; or, the tail of a dog such as a beagle or foxhound (5) |
| RAM | A beam for battering, breaking or breaching a barricade, bastion, battlement or bulwark; a beak of a boat's bow; or, a buck bellwether (3) |
| RACO | Bow or knot, in Lisbon |
| TIE | Make a bow or knot in (3) |
| HOMONYMS | Bow and bow or tear and tear, for example |
| YIELD | Bow or garland put back in yard |
| ABEDNEGO | In the Book of Daniel, one of three men thrown into a fiery pit for refusing to bow to an image of the king of Babylon (8) |
| ABREAST | Bow to bow, perhaps |
