| TAPON | Touch lightly, as a shoulder |
| TAP | Touch lightly as a phone screen |
| DABAT | Touch lightly, as a canvas with paint |
| DAB | Touch lightly, as with a napkin |
| KISS | Touch lightly, as billiard balls |
| DAP | Touch lightly, as water |
| SKIS | Runners touch lightly as tail-ender goes into first place (4) |
| DRYMOP | Clean lightly, as a floor |
| STRUM | Play lightly, as a guitar |
| NIPAT | Bite lightly, as a puppy might |
| TAPSON | Hits lightly, as a window |
| NIP | Bite lightly, as a puppy |
| TAPSAT | Strikes lightly, as a window |
| NIPSAT | Bites lightly, as a puppy might its owner's heels |
| BLADE | Something flat, such as a shoulder bone; a part of the tongue behind the tip; a leaf of grass; or, the cutting edge of a knife (5) |
| SEWON | Affix, as a shoulder patch |
| DISLOCATE | Put out of place, as a shoulder |
| DISLOCATED | * Separated, as a shoulder or vertebra |
| SWASTIKA | During World War I, the American 45th Infantry Division wore what symbol as a shoulder patch? (8) |
| AIGUILLETTE | Braided metal-tipped cord worn as a shoulder ornament on military uniforms; from French, 'little needle' (11) |
