| CALX | Heel of the foot |
| PUGLIA | Italian name for the region forming the heel of the boot of Italy, site of Lecce, the so-called "Florence of the South" (6) |
| YEMEN | The "heel" of the Arabian Peninsula |
| RESET | Break around heel of the boot again |
| IRISH | Hard on the heels of the flower people |
| UNC | The Tar Heels of the NCAA |
| MEET | Run into writer at the heels of the hunt (4) |
| SUNG | Legal "reed" anagram arrival, in short luck, position of or importance heel of wood in ? regret the loss of? : I'll pay the bill? wine |
| KICK | A back-heel of a ball, boot of a bucket or other strike with a foot; a gun's recoil; or, archaically, the fashion (4) |
| SPUR | Projection sometimes worn on the heel of a rider's boot for urging a horse forward; or, a branch line of a railway (4) |
| POTATO | Edible tuber of a nightshade; or, a hole in the heel of a sock (6) |
| ARCH | Curve between the ball and heel of a foot; or, a fingerprint pattern (4) |
| SPURS | Spikes on the backs of gamecocks' legs; goads on the heels of horse-riders' boots; or, by extension, things serving to incentivise, prompt or urge forth (5) |
| OTRANTO | Town on the heel of Italy's boot |
| ITALY | The heel of its boot is Apulia |
| CUBAN | The heel of Castro's island (5) |
| APULIA | The heel of Italy's "boot" |
| LECCE | Walled city in the 'heel' of Italy (5) |
| BARI | City near the heel of Italy's boot |
| ACHILLES | Your weak spot might be described as the heel of this ancient Greek warrior |
