| LENS | Word after contact or before cover |
| PRONE | Lying down, as before, covers over (5) |
| EYE | Word that can go before contact or candy |
| TRIBALNAMES | Designations that are often lost or altered after contact with settler-colonists |
| REACT | Of chemicals, undergo change after contact with another substance |
| PURCHASE | Firm contact or grip on e.g. a surface or rockface (8) |
| ATOUCHOFTHESUN | Enough to turn one pink after contact with our boy, we hear (1,5,2,3,3) |
| TOUCHANDGO | On the brink of getting green light after contact (5,3,2) |
| RUBOFF | Be transferred by contact or association (3,3) |
| LIAISE | To make contact or connect (6) |
| SOCIALCUE | Making eye contact or crossing your arms, e.g. |
| INTOUCH | In contact or out! (2,5) |
| GHOSTING | Suddenly cutting all contact... or what happened to three letters in four Across clues |
| CONNECTIONS | Business contacts or links |
| WATCH | See what can go after 8, 9, or 10 or before 28, 29, or 30 (5) |
| TAI | Word after "mai" or before "chi" |
| CURVE | Word after bell or before ball |
| IRON | Word after pig or before horse |
| RIOT | Word after run or before gun |
| TEST | Word after scratch or before match |
