| SORTABLE | Possible to order a lobster to be cooked? |
| TAIL | Best part of the lobster, to many |
| ROE | Lobsters-to-be, perhaps |
| NIPPER | A carter, a costermonger or a navvy's boy assistant; a chela of a crab or a lobster; a child; a cutpurse or a pickpocket; a creature that bites or pinches; or, one of a pair of cuffs (6) |
| POT | A lobster trap; a planter; a pipkin; or, a silver cup as a prize (3) |
| BEARN | A coffee bean; a lobster or crayfish's egg; a soft fruit such as an aubergine, avocado, banana or to |
| ASRED | Comparable to a lobster or a beet |
| SCORPION | Looks like a lobster is related to a spider (8) |
| CLAW | Part of a lobster that might have a rubber band around it while in a restaurant's tank |
| CREEL | Credit for catching a fish with a lobster trap (5) |
| BIB | Lobster dinner handout with a lobster on it, often |
| BIBBED | Like a fed baby or a lobster eater |
| LANGOUSTINE | Shellfish larger than a prawn, but smaller than a lobster (11) |
| PRAWN | Something less like a lobster, more like a shrimp (5) |
| INACREEL | Unsound reliance of where to get a lobster (2,1,5) |
| ISRED | Looks cooked, as a lobster |
| BLOATERS | Cooked a lobster and smoked herrings (8) |
| TAILFAN | Part of a lobster scattered in a flat (7) |
| CRAYFISH | One of those red as a lobster gets cold from the sun - that's a cod? (8) |
| CRUSTACEAN | Arthropod with a hard shell, such as a lobster, crab, shrimp or woodlouse (10) |