| ASONG | "- - of sixpence..." |
| DAINTY | Kind of dish set before the king in the rhyme Sing A Song Of Sixpence |
| RYE | "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of ___ ..." |
| PARLOUR | Location of the queen in the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence (7) |
| BAKEDINAPIE | "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocketful of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds ..." (5,2,1,3) |
| SINGA | "___ song of sixpence..." |
| PIE | Dainty dish in "Sing a Song of Sixpence" |
| OFRYE | "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full __ ___". (2,3) |
| BREADANDHONEY | What the queen was eating in the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence (5,3,5) |
| MAUGHAM | Paris-born British author of a number of novels including Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil and Cakes and Ale (7) |
| STEELE | Surname of Tommy, star of Half a Sixpence (6) |
| TESTER | Canopy over a four-poster bed; sixpence; a sample of perfume; or, a miniature pot of paint (6) |
| ZAC | Sixpence we hear, was paid to purchase half of the Australian army? (3) |
| SPRAT | An old word for a sixpence; a small herring-like brisling; or, with "weather", the dark days of November and December, said to be favourable for catching such a fish (5) |
| COIN | Originally meaning "cornerstone" or "wedge", word for any one of various minted numismatic discs, such as a bob, copper, crown, farthing, shilling, sixpence or sovereign (4) |
| TANNERY | Sixpence, last of money used where hides were treated (7) |
| HALFCROWN | British coin worth two shillings and sixpence taken out of circulation in 1970 (4-5) |
| SOMERSET | English author of novels including The Moon and Sixpence (1919) (8) |
| TASTER | From which to get the scent of an old sixpence (6) |
| GAUGUIN | Somerset Maugham's 1919 novel Moon and Sixpence is inspired by the life of which French painter? (7) |
