| STRUNG | Like a bow or a racket |
| 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) |
| ARCHERY | Skill or sport of shooting with a bow; or, a company of toxophilites or their weapons collectively (7) |
| ARC | Word for a bow or a curve and one from which the name for a toxophilite, aka bowman/woman, derives (3) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| TWANG | Onomatopoeic word for the plucked or pulled string of a bow or guitar; or, a local intonation (5) |
| HEEL | Part of a shoe, loaf of bread, golf club, violin bow or a human foot (4) |
| TIE | Make a bow or knot in (3) |
| OBEISANCE | A bow or act of reverence (9) |
| COURTSHOE | Formal footwear, sometimes with a bow or buckle |
| SAROD | Indian stringed musical instrument that may be played with a bow or plucked (5) |
| 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) |
| STERN | The rear of a boat or ship, opposite the bow; or, the tail of a dog such as a beagle or foxhound (5) |
| DROLL | "His ___ little mouth was drawn up like a bow" (line from "A Visit From St. Nicholas") |
| ARCED | Shaped like a bow |
| CLIPON | Attached like a bow tie, for example (4-2) |
| TAUT | Tight like a bow string |
| ARCUATE | Shaped like a bow |
| EMBOW | To bend like a bow; to curve (5) |
