| ORMER | An ear- shell or sea- ear (5) |
| HINGE | A cardinal direction - north, south, east or west; a device upon which a door or gate swings; the joint of a bivalve mollusc's shell; or, a philatelic mount for a postage stamp (5) |
| CONCH | A large spiral shell or the snail-like sea creature that lives in it (5) |
| CRUST | Earth's shell; or, the top of a pie (5) |
| PASTA | Food such as spiral-shaped fusilli, conchiglie shells or farfalle in the shape of bow ties or butterflies' wings (5) |
| PEARL | It forms in shell or around shelllike place |
| SNAIL | Word before shell or mail |
| ARMOR | Turtle's shell or pangolin's scales, for example |
| ABALONE | Seafood delicacy also called the ormer or sea-ear |
| SPENT | Like some shells or money |
| CLOPS | Makes hoof-fall sounds (with either coconut shells or hooves) |
| ABALONES | Ormers or sea-ears with mother-of-pearl-lined shells (8) |
| TEST | Cupel in which to refine gold or silver; a sea urchin's shell; or, a trial (4) |
| COX | From the Middle English for "boat boy", a short word for the skipper or helm of a lifeboat or racing shell; or, a cultivar of apple (3) |
| SHRAPNEL | Debris created by an exploding shell or bomb (8) |
| KERNEL | The edible central part of a seed, nut or fruit within the shell or stone (6) |
| TIMBALE | Meat or fish cooked with other ingredients in a pastry shell or in a mould |
| OFFWHITE | Neutral colour/shade similar to cream, chalk, ivory, egg shell or vanilla (3-5) |
| SAND | Grains of quartz, topaz, garnet, tourmaline, shell or coral collectively from which glass, pearls, stucco or Portland cement can derive (4) |
| DRAGEE | Cake decoration in the form of a tiny silver ball or bead; sugar-coated nut; chocolate drop with a candy shell; or, a medicated sweet (6) |
