| COMETOHEEL | Obey - like the Achilles tendon (4,2,4) |
| THERULES | Things to obey, like 36-Across and 8-Down |
| CALF | The part of the lower leg connected to the foot by the Achilles tendon |
| CALCANEUS | Largest bone of the foot, to which the calf muscles are attached by the Achilles tendon (9) |
| EPONYM | Achilles, for the Achilles tendon |
| HEEL | Part of the foot that's attached to the Achilles tendon |
| ANKLE | Joint by the Achilles tendon |
| HEELBONE | The Achilles tendon is attached to it |
| CALFMUSCLE | Achilles-tendon attachment |
| NIPSAT | Attacks, as the Achilles' heel |
| EACH | Every one found in the Achilles' heel (4) |
| PILATES | Stretches Achilles' tendon, initially beset by painful complaint (7) |
| ESTE | Spanish direction hidden in "Achilles tendon" |
| NATHANVANBERLO | Crows captain who ruptured his achilles tendon in 2014 (6,3,5) |
| COTTONEDON | Got caught tendon? Too bad (8,2) |
| DESPONDENT | Sped up tendon repair, but still so gloomy! (10) |
| TENDINITIS | Inflammation of a tendon (10) |
| PUTANENDTO | Stop to place a tendon twisted (3,2,3,2) |
| ACHILLES | Greek hero of the Trojan War and the tendon connecting the calf muscle to the heel |
| KNEEJERK | The jerk of the leg when a tendon below the knee is struck (4,4) |
