| CALLS | Telephone conversations; notes blown on hunting horns as signals; or, directions in country dancing (5) |
| MORDENT | Musical ornament in flourish blown on hunting horn around earth |
| BONFIRES | They're lit as signals or in celebration (8) |
| POLLED | Without horns, as cattle |
| STEER | Could you use its horns as handlebars? (5) |
| FIGURES | Patterns formed in country dancing or an ice-skating discipline; or, explanatory illustrations in books (7) |
| HAY | Grass dried as fodder; or, a circular figure in country dancing (3) |
| FIGURE | Predetermined set of movements or steps in country dancing and ice-skating (6) |
| DOSIDO | Figure in country dancing in which two dancers pass round each other (2-2-2) |
| HORNS | Cream- or custard-filled pastries, known in Italy as cannoncini; brass bugles traditionally used for hunting signals; or, a stag's antlers (5) |
| ALARMS | Exclamations meaning "to weapons!" originally, later a word for distress/alert signals; or, devices transmitting said warnings, such as bells, clocks, sirens or tocsins (6) |
| CUES | Lines for an American spoken as signals for action on stage (4) |
| FLARES | What are sudden blazes of fire or light, used as signals (6) |
| RONDEL | Figure in Scottish country dancing by means of which couples change position in the set |
| ADORED | Europe's most westerly land has extremes of letters or directions (6) |
| INDIANA | Knight goes on hunting goddess to support single state (7) |
| BLOODSPORTS | Hospital tests and fortified drinks bring on hunting and such (5,6) |
| LINDA | White House employee who secretly taped Monica Lewinsky's telephone conversations discussing her rel |
| MIXEDMESSAGES | Conflicting signals, or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| TRUNKCALLS | Term for the antiquated long-distance telephone conversations that involved connection by operators between two exchanges (5,5) |
