| ICAN | Words with a hand up, maybe |
| STOP | It's sometimes said with a hand up |
| NADIA | Girl climbing a mountain finally needing a hand up |
| BOOSTED | Gave a hand up |
| UREDIA | Spore producers of flower needing a hand up (6) |
| LIMPWRISTED | Wanting a hand up, being so ineffectual? |
| DAUPHIN | I could give a hand up to the old French prince (7) |
| TUFT | Word with a bunch of meanings including a beard, a feathery crest, a grassy clump, a loop in a rug, a tassel or a wisp of a squirrel's fluffy tail/ear (4) |
| ATSIX | When a hand's up and the other's down |
| PIZZADOUGH | It's tossed with the palm of one hand up, and the other in a fist; it's caught on the backs of the fists |
| SWEARS | Speaks with one's hand up, perhaps |
| ARMPIT | Hairy place to be seen with your hand up (6) |
| HERES | Word spoken with one hand up |
| CLAUSE | A group of words with a subject and finite verb as part of a complex sentence / particular provision in a formal or legal document |
| MUMMERSET | Imitation rustic West Country accent used by actors, characterised in part by starting S words with a Z and F words with a V (9) |
| TINYTIM | Carol's little boy having hand up to hold in yours for a start |
| WAVE | Put hand up as gesture we hear to surrender (4) |
| WAIVED | Put one's hand up, say, having surrendered (6) |
| WRAP | Cover hand up, bandaging end of finger (4) |
| INDIA | Smart to be given hand up, as foreign country (5) |
