| RAZOR | A beard cutter |
| BLADE | Beard cutter |
| BARB | A jag of an arrow or a fish-hook; a beard-like filament of a cyprinid; a harl or ramus of a feather's vane; or, a pointed or wounding remark (4) |
| OWLS | In an Edward Lear verse, what birds, along with larks, a hen and a wren, built their nests in a beard? (4) |
| JAMES | ___ A. Garfield 20th President of the U.S.A. and the fourth to sport a beard in office |
| SUITTOGOATEE | Be a complement for a beard? |
| GOATEED | Sporting a bit of a beard |
| AWNED | Having a beard on a farm |
| GNU | Animal with a mane and a beard |
| LIMERICK | Lear's, for example, went, 'There was an old man with a beard; Who said, 'It is just a I feared!'; T |
| EAGERBEAVER | Listen to bore with a beard, a very keen type |
| GOAT | A hardy, lively, frisky short-haired domesticated mammal with horns and a beard and kept for its milk and meat |
| PULLITOFF | Make a successful attempt at proving a beard is false? (4,2,3) |
| GNOME | Imaginary small old man with a beard and a pointed hat (5) |
| AWNER | It may trim a beard -- or a raw nerve! (5) |
| CHIN | A burnside is a beard leaving hairless which part of the face? (4) |
| HOT | A movie about a beard on fire? Call the police! - see 8ac (3,4) |
| FUZZ | A movie about a beard on fire? Call the police! - see 7ac (3,4) |
| AWN | Something like a beard discovered in a raw novice (3) |
| UNSHAVED | Growing a beard had Venus in a tizzy (8) |
