- BENDS
- Folds over
- Swerves from a straight line
- Curves
- Deep sea diver's ailment
- Doglegs
- Deep knee ___
- Gives in
- Road curves
- Compromises
- Ballerina's plie's
- Plies
- Diver's woe
- Shows flexibility
- Relaxes, as rules
- Surfacing diver's concern, with "the"
- Switchback features
- Gives a little
- Is flexible
- Diver's concern
- Crooks
- Road turns
- Isn't stubborn
- Gives a bit
- Flexes
- Flexes, as a muscle
- Diver's dread, with "the"
- Deep-sea diver's hazard, with "the"
- Swerves.
- Stoops
- Divers' affliction
- Diver's hazard
- Yields
- Knee exercises
- Caisson disease
- Deflects
- Sandhog's ailment
- Caisson worker's affliction
- Decompression sickness
- Doesn't follow to the letter, as rules
- Twists
- Part of morning calisthenics
- Contorts
- Concern when coming up, with "the"
- Agrees to compromise
- With 20-Across, goes to great lengths
- Bows
- Diving hazard, with "the"
- Makes a concession
- Relents
- Diver's danger
- Emulates a Silly Straw
- Barre exercises
- River features
- Gives in a little
- Curves in a road
- Leans in yoga class
- Result of coming up too rapidly
- Turns from a straight line
- ___ the truth (fibs)
- Crumples
- Diving woe
- Hairpin turns, e.g.
- Takes a bow, say
- ___ over backwards (tries very hard)
- Some calisthenics
- Demonstrates flexibility
- Moves like a curveball