| STEPIN | ____ shoes have no laces or other fastenings |
| TIES | Bands, bows, couplings, knots, laces, shackles, strings, tethers or other fastenings; by extension, connections bonding people; or, commitments or duties that restrain or bind (4) |
| RUCHE | A frill of lace or other material, especially one that is pleated (5) |
| STRAP | Strip of leather or other flexible material often with a buckle or other fastening for holding things together |
| BINDER | A bibliopegist, book cover, egg white, ring folder, rope or other fastening, sticking or tying person or thing (6) |
| LOAFERS | Flat leather shoes with no laces or straps (7) |
| SLIPON | Having no laces or buckles (shoes) (4~2) |
| SLIPONS | Shoes without laces or straps or Velcro or buckles or ties or zips |
| ONS | Slip-___ (shoes with no laces) |
| SPIKES | Running shoes have these laces |
| EYELETS | Peepholes in walls; or, grommets for receiving cords, laces or ropes in boots, garments or sails (7) |
| ZIPUP | (Of shoes) without laces or velcro (3-2) |
| SLIPONSHOE | Footwear item with no laces |
| LOAFER | Shoe with no laces |
| CLOGS | What shoes have thick wooden soles? (5) |
| TOES | What shoes have but sandals don't |
| CREPESOLES | Do Suzette's shoes have them? |
| VELLIES | A Shoes have stories after one leaves vile sport (7) |
| SHOE | It might fasten with laces or Velcro |
| FLOORCLOTH | Baffle local idiot with hot material for cleaning where the shoes have been (10) |
