| TELEPHONES | Rings for handsets or their like |
| SALESPEOPLE | Those who peddle for Estate Agents or their like, perhaps |
| ISLES | Is the French atoll, eyot, or their like |
| SHOES | Southern cultivators produce pumps or their like |
| UNIFORM | What is worn by police officers, or their like (7) |
| PLAYS | Amuses oneself with dramas or their like |
| ASPS | Cobras or their like pass away |
| RODS | What are sticks, wands, staffs, shafts, or their like (4) |
| JEWELLER | Which person deals in gems or their like (8) |
| ODDMENTS | What are remnants, or their like (8) |
| BRANDS | What are trademarks, or their like (6) |
| BRIGADES | Forces fire squads or their like |
| IMPLANTS | What are artificial hips, or their like (8) |
| LOCKS | Which devices are used in securing doors or their like (5) |
| HATS | Send off handsets for going over the heads (4) |
| APHIS | Bug those leading actors' phone handsets in secret |
| REMOTECONTROLS | About time, some corner lot manufactured handsets (6,8) |
| TINCANS | Handsets in a primitive phone system |
| CRADLE | Handset's place |
| RECEIVER | A beneficiary, catcher, ear, fence, telephone handset, wireless or other person or thing characterised by accepting, harbouring or taking (8) |
