| ASHARDASNAILS | A broken piece on a mollusc’s very tough |
| SHARD | Archaically, a boundary water; dialectically, a gap; vernacularly, a broken piece, crock or scrap of pottery; or, zoologically, from a misunderstanding of Shakespeare, a beetle's elytron or wing case |
| OSTRACON | A broken piece of ceramic material used as a writing surface |
| POTSHERD | A broken piece of ceramic material, especially one found on an archaeological site (8) |
| SAUCER | Curse a broken piece of crockery (6) |
| HARDASNAILS | Very tough rails a hand's shifted (4,2,5) |
| PICASSO | Film's very good about a Spanish painter |
| RARE | It s very uncommon for a ' receptacle to contain it (4) |
| DIYA | Light opera singer’s very in need of a supporting line |
| STEADFAST | True a 's very quick, by the sound of it? (9) |
| MIMOSA | Mum’s drunk the setter’s very large cocktail |
| PEROXIDEBLONDE | On bed, I explored being kinky — she’s very fair |
| TITYRE | Address to a shepherd (Ecl 1.1), back in Virgil’s very title |
| STEEL | Rob heard it's very tough in construction (5) |
| OXHIDE | It's very tough, removing lead from TV screen |
| ADAMANTINE | A US woman eclipsing rival before end of election, very tough |
| BOVVERBOOTS | So to rob, be violent, pinching very very tough footwear |
| MARTINET | When mater is splashing around money, he's very tough (8) |
| SPARTAN | For a stretch, incarcerating the man is very tough (7) |
| EPOXYRESIN | Is Pyrex one manufactured synthetic polymer that's very tough? (5,5) |
