| SCANDALISED | Reduced (a sail) by lowering the head or raising the boom (11) |
| SCANDALISE | Reduce (a sail) by lowering the head or raising the boom (10) |
| HELIUM | Used in space exploration, cryogenics, rocketry, lifting party balloons or raising the voice two octaves higher than normal, the lightest noble gas, atomic no. 2 (6) |
| BOWING | Lowering the head (6) |
| FRAPS | Secures a sail by lashing |
| ROUNDEDDOWN | Figure reduced a little by circular motion? (7,4) |
| RABBITPUNCH | A sharp blow to the back of the head or to the base of the skull that can cause serious injury (6,5) |
| CRACKDOWNON | Lower the boom |
| NAB | A colloquialism meaning to catch, collar, grab, nick, nobble, seize or snatch; the cock of a gunlock or keeper of a door latch; a hilltop, projection or promontory; or, formerly, the head or a hat (3) |
| PRESSUP | Exercise performed by raising and lowering the body using the arms (5-2) |
| PROP | The boom box from "Say Anything" or the boom box from "Do the Right Thing," e.g. |
| MINORMIRACLE | 'Let's try something more melancholy,' said Johnny, lowering the E by a semitone. He shook his head. |
| CURTSY | Feminine movement of respect by bending the knee and lowering the body (6) |
| PRESSUPS | Gymnastic exercises performed face down, raising and lowering the body on the arms (5,3) |
| DEBASING | Lowering the quality by removing the deepest male voices (8) |
| FARMING | Practice of cultivating the land or raising stock (7) |
| BRINGINGUP | Raising issue or raising one's issue? (8,2) |
| BEE | Familiar insect imagined busily bumbling or buzzing in the head or bonnet of he or she who can't take their mind off something; or, a communal spelldown or quilting party for industrious apian-like in |
| OMAHA | In the boom, a happy city on the Missouri (5) |
| JIB | What is the boom of a crane or derrick? (3) |
