| COLLECTSCRAP | Gathers rubbish, or pick up old iron? (7,5) |
| GLITTER | Flare and start to gather rubbish (7) |
| TAB | Something to run up or pick up |
| PACE | Something to set or pick up |
| GLEAN | Gather or pick up |
| LIFT | Raise or pick up (4) |
| DITTO | Pick up old Times papers again |
| ALAN | Lazy Arsenal about to pick up old footballer (4,7) |
| ALANSHEARER | Lazy Arsenal about to pick up old footballer |
| TORQUAY | How some may pick up old picture in seaside resort (7) |
| GOANNA | Harry returned to pick up old article about Australian lizard (6) |
| TONIC | A keynote; a stressed syllable in a word; quinine water to mix with gin; or, any restorative or pick-me-up (5) |
| TOMTITS | Birds such as the milk-bottle-top-pecking cerulean "billy biters", nuns or pick-cheeses forming "banditries"; or, their bearded, coal, crested, great, long-tailed, marsh or willow cousins (7) |
| BONE | Thing to pick, or pick clean |
| REELECT | Dance - pick second half or pick again (7) |
| LITTER | Word that collectively refers to a load of old rubbish; or, conversely, a veritable gift of life in the form of a farrow of piglets or a kindle of kittens (6) |
| ROTOR | It goes round rubbish - or comes back - or doesn't! (5) |
| CHAFF | Paleaceous husks; rubbish or worthless material; or, badinage (5) |
| PLUM | Damson-like fruit synonymous with "best", "choice" or "pick of the bunch"; or, a dried grape as a substitute for said drupe, as used in a pudding (4) |
| NIT | Kind of wit or pick |