| LIFELINE | Diver's rope for sending signals to the water's surface; or, one of a hand's creases studied in palmistry (8) |
| REEF | A rocky ridge near the water's surface; or, in gold mining, a lode or vein of auriferous quartz (4) |
| RIPPLE | Little wave or undulation on the water's surface; or, ice cream swirled with raspberry syrup (6) |
| WHEEL | One of a hand truck's pair |
| LOOKMA | Start of a hands-off declaration? |
| SOCK | One of a hand-knitted pair |
| HEYSIRI | Start of a hands-free call, maybe |
| UPLINK | What is a transmission path for sending signals from an earth station to a communication satellite (6) |
| ALDIS | ___ lamp - traditionally used for sending signals at sea (5) |
| NIPPER | A carter, a costermonger or a navvy's boy assistant; a chela of a crab or a lobster; a child; a cutpurse or a pickpocket; a creature that bites or pinches; or, one of a pair of cuffs (6) |
| FISH | A flat piece of bone as a counter in a game; an informal word for a torpedo; or, an ichthys or one of a pair of piscis represented in the constellation or zodiacal water sign Pisces (4) |
| STALL | A doorless pew; a cowshed or stable; a bench or booth for the sale of goods in a market; or, one of a glove's tube-like cots for fingers (5) |
| EYELET | An aperture, cringle or grommet for the passage of cord, lace or ribbon in a boot, corset or sail; or, one of a series of embroidered holes in broderie anglaise (6) |
| SCULL | A shallow kipe or basket for grain, herring, peats, potatoes, turnips etc; a shoal of migrating fish; or, one of a pair of spoon-bladed oars for propelling a racing shell of the same name (5) |
| FRET | The true-lover's knot of heraldry; a sea fog or haar; or, one of a series of metal strips or ridges on the fingerboard of a guitar (4) |
| SUNKEN | A non-buoyant person or thing; a doughnut in the US; a mistletoe root; or, a weight for carrying a fishing-line beneath the water's surface (6) |
| GRIP | A firm handclasp or secret handshake; power over the mind; a travel bag; a bobby pin; one's manner of holding a tennis racquet; or, one of a film crew's camera technicians (4) |
| PLUG | Type of bung for a sink or bath; or, one of a number of seedlings planted in a tray (4) |
| SPLASH | Disturbance on the water's surface caused by a diver or the launch of a ship; a leading front-page story; or, a film about a mermaid (6) |
| PUDDLE | A pool of rainwater; a ripple on the water's surface left by the blade of an oar; or, a curtain's train of fabric, spilling onto the floor (6) |
