| WAVES | Uses the hand as a greeting |
| WAVE | Move the hand as a greeting (4) |
| WAVING | Moving one's hand as a greeting (6) |
| GREECE | Where the tradition of shaking hands as a greeting originated |
| SCEPTRES | Ornamental rods or wands carried in the hand as symbols of authority (8) |
| SALUTE | Kiss as a greeting; raised hand as a military gesture of respect; or, the ceremonial firing of cannon, dipping of colours or presenting of arms (6) |
| MANUAL | Word, from "hand", for a small book for handy use; or, a keyboard of an organ, operated with the hands, as opposed to a pedal, with the feet (6) |
| DRAWSTO | Tries to make (a specific hand, as a flush)* |
| WOVE | Made by hand, as a rug |
| PALM | Hide in your hand, as a magician would |
| SUNSHADE | Somehow use hands as a protection against the heat (8) |
| NEEDED | Soundly worked with the hands as required (6) |
| KNEAD | Work with the hands, as dough |
| ANALOG | Having hands, as a clock |
| RUSE | Are you told to take two hands as a trick? (4) |
| CHINCHIN | From Chinese "qing qing", translating as "please, please", an informal interjection used as a greeting, farewell or as a toast (4-4) |
| VOYAGER | Carrying the Golden Record intended as a greeting to extraterrestrial life should it be encountered, either of two space probes launched in 1977 to investigate the outer planets (7) |
| HATS | Items traditionally doffed as a greeting or as a mark of respect (4) |
| SOUTHPAW | A boxer who leads with the right hand as opposed to the orthodox style (8) |
| BONOBO | Chimpanzee that uses sex as a greeting |
