| APPELLATION | Name similar in sound to that of mountains |
| HEIRLOOM | Broadcast in sound to appear as something transmitted down line |
| ASWELL | An increase in sound to boot (2,4) |
| TARLATAN | Name, similar to that of Scottish plaid, for a type of stiffened muslin formerly used to add shape to ball-gowns, crinolines or dresses (8) |
| LIOTARD | Name, similar to that of a famous trapeze artist's, of a Swiss artist who adopted Turkish dress and created, in paint or pastel, The Chocolate Girl, The Early Breakfast, Portrait of Lady with Hyacinth |
| MIRO | Name, similar to that of a ballpoint pen, of a Spanish surrealist whose "dream paintings" are characterised by spiky or amoebic shapes in primary colours, outlined in black (4) |
| SUNDAE | With a name similar to that of the Christian Sabbath, a cherry-and-syrup-topped ice cream served in a tulip-shaped glass; or, a type of mixed nougat or other confection (6) |
| BRAMBLING | With a name similar to that of the blackberry bush or a variety of cooking apple, a chaffinch-like bird, known regionally as cock o' the north, furze chirper and tartan back (9) |
| BYRD | Name, similar to that of an avian, of Elizabeth I's favourite composer (4) |
| LINTEL | Name, similar to that of a green pulse from Le Puy, for a horizontal beam or header over a window or door (6) |
| STEEVE | A derrick with a name similar to that of Coogan, Jobs or Winwood (6) |
| PYGG | Name, similar to the clay that is punningly said to have made hog-shaped pottery guardians or banks for coins, for porkers whimsically flying in a world of impossibilities (4) |
| RHYMING | Song about India in raga oddly similar in sound (7) |
| TAMTAM | A gong of indefinite pitch whose onomatopoeic name in question is similar to that of a type of drum (3-3) |
| CRACKNEL | Name, similar to a school-dinner classic of chocolate cornflake cake and onomatopoeically rooted in Dutch for "snap", of a light crisp brittle often twice-baked savoury biscuit; or, a hard nutty filli |
| BALALAIKA | Musical instrument has mere ring similar in sound |
| RHYME | Be similar in sound |
| RHYMES | The ends of the lines are similar in sounds (6) |
| SECANT | In trigonometry, the ratio of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle to that of the adjacent side; the reciprocal of the cosine (6) |
| WASPIE | A laced corset or girdled belt serving to cinch the waist of its wearer to proportions akin to that of the vespa from which its name derives (6) |
