| GREECE | Where the tradition of shaking hands as a greeting originated |
| NERVES | Reason of shaking hands? |
| WAVES | Uses the hand as a greeting |
| WAVE | Move the hand as a greeting (4) |
| WAVING | Moving one's hand as a greeting (6) |
| 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) |
| KENDO | With its origins in the tradition of the samurai and meaning "way of the sword", a Japanese martial art and form of fencing using bamboo staves (5) |
| SONG | Any one of a series of musical compositions for voice as part of the tradition of wassailing, carolling or midnight mass (4) |
| EPOS | Collection of poems concerned with the tradition of a people (4) |
| SUNSHADE | Somehow use hands as a protection against the heat (8) |
| 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) |
| CHAUCER | Author whose poem The Parliament of Fowls is said to have contributed towards the tradition of Valentine's Day (7) |
| EGGS | Said to turn to diamonds 100 years after being laid on Good Friday, symbols of birth, life and of spring, used in the tradition of jarping and depicted in chocolate at Easter (4) |
| LONDON | City where Henry Croft founded the tradition of Pearly Kings and Queens (6) |
| LASH | "The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the _": Winston Churchill (4) |
| RUSE | Are you told to take two hands as a trick? (4) |
| DRAWSTO | Tries to make (a specific hand, as a flush)* |
| ELIZABETHII | Monarch whose grandfather George V started the tradition of the Christmas speech in 1932 (9,1,1) |
| MOS | Custom; ____ maiorum, the tradition of our ancestors |
| NINJA | Kombat hotshot: Precision fighter in the tradition of elite Japanese mercenaries |
