| BONCE | Diva removing shell of every nut (5) |
| RIGHTO | Removing shell from Sussex beach is OK |
| OMIT | Leave out some bits after removing shells (4) |
| VALVE | Stopcock; mechanism of a trumpet, cornet or other brass instrument; leaf of a folding door; or, each of the halves of the hinged shell of a clam, mussel or oyster (5) |
| SCULL | A shallow kipe or basket for grain, herring, peats, potatoes, turnips etc; a shoal of migrating fish; or, one of a pair of spoon-bladed oars for propelling a racing shell of the same name (5) |
| CRUST | The outer part of bread; baked pastry shell of a pie; or, the base of a pizza (5) |
| SKULL | The hard shell of a nut? (5) |
| PECAN | Setter eating shell of exotic nut (5) |
| PEARL | A lustrous structure occurring on the inner surface of the shell of a clam or oyster (5) |
| OCTET | Stable group of eight electrons in the shell of an atom (5) |
| SCUTE | Thickened horny or bony exoskeletal plate, as on the shell of a turtle, the skin of a crocodile etc. (5) |
| NACRE | Inside the shell of northern land area (5) |
| TESTA | Hard shell of some invertebrate starfish (5) |
| FRANC | Shell of ranch, bit disused (5) |
| FIGHT | Scrap of fruit and shell of hazelnut |
| LODGE | Tumbledown old shell of gate house (5) |
| CONCH | Shell of a bivalve mollusc, used as a wind instrument (5) |
| SHUCK | Remove the shell (of a mollusc) |
| ORMER | Shell of yellow hue on French sea |
| CHALK | Natural calcium carbonate, formed from the shells of minute marine organisms (5) |
