| ALLEGORIES | Agitated silverbacks Peter regularly included are symbolic representations |
| EFFICIENT | About fifteen in charge included are competent (9) |
| CHEMICAL | Symbolic representations of composition of substances (8,8) |
| TOTEMS | Symbolic representations of money found in large bags |
| NEUMES | You see mine are symbolic of notes of Gregorian chant (6) |
| MAMMON | Mother, Frenchman and Scotsman are symbolic of greed (6) |
| RIDER | Free beer regularly included in performer's list of requirements |
| TABASCO | 5 and beans regularly included in Mexican food |
| DIORAMA | Three-dimensional scene Ivor regularly included in play |
| PROCLAIM | Trumpet call, as is regularly included in concert (8) |
| MUTANTS | Freaks of nature: mongrels ain't regularly included (7) |
| RATTLES | Charges still regularly included - is disconcerting |
| INSIPID | Weak batting by pair regularly included in team - finally game lost (7) |
| ULYSSES | Modernist novel and play is regularly included in works (7) |
| FORFAR | Home town of the Scottish rugby team Strathmore Silverbacks (6) |
| AGED | Old silverbacks wed (4) |
| SPATS | Rarely seen nowadays, these upper shoe protectors are symbolic of 1930s bourgeoisie. (5) |
| TARTAN | Any of various patterns or "setts" woven into cloth that are symbolic of Highland clans and iconic of Scottish heritage (6) |
| MISTLETOE | A stormcock-propagated Malus canopy-hosted plant whose evergreen leaves and white berries are symbolic of fertility, hence traditionally forming lovers' Christmas kissing boughs with bay, holly, ivy, |
| LORDS | "Bread keeping, loaf warding" male counterparts of "bread kneading" ladies, whose leaping examples in The Twelve Days of Christmas are symbolic of the Ten Commandments (5) |
