| PORCINE | Drunken prince guzzling first of oysters like a pig |
| BEIGE | A fabric of undyed or unbleached wool; or, the neutral buff-, camel-, ecru-, fawn-, mushroom-, oatmeal- or oyster-like colour of said natural cloth (5) |
| MOLLUSC | Invertebrate such as the oyster-like bivalve called a jingle shell (7) |
| WASH | Coat of diluted ink or watercolour applied to paper with a long sweep of a brush; alluvium; dialect for 10 strikes of oysters; or, a quantity of clothes for the laundry (4) |
| SPAT | A petty quarrel or tiff; the spawn of oysters or of other shellfish; or, a type of short cloth gaiter (4) |
| BED | A berth, bunk, palliasse, shakedown etc, such as Shakespeare's "second- best" example which he bequeathed to his wife; or, something thusly flat, such as a garden plot of roses, a layer of oysters or |
| BEARDS | Chin puffs, five-o'clock shadows, imperials, vandykes etc; or, awns of barley, barbels of fishes or gills of oysters, reminiscent of said ziffs (6) |
| BEDS | Garden plots of cabbages or roses, e.g.; layers of oysters; or, cots, bunks, four-posters etc, originally dug-out lairs, hollows or piles of straw (4) |
| DESTROYS | Gets rid of oysters affected after outbreak of disease (8) |
| LINACRE | Early English doctor went a distance in China for a bit of oyster (7) |
| BEACH | Butler in the Blandings Castle books by P. G. Wodehouse; or, a type of sandy or pebbly shore that is the habitat of oyster-catchers, turnstones and other waders (5) |
| PEARLHARBOURING | Possible description of oysters attacking suddenly |
| STEW | Source of oysters for slowly cooked dish |
| ORMER | Seafood starters of Oysters Rockefeller upset band |
| ANGELSONHORSEBACK | Dish of oysters wrapped in bacon and served on toast (6,2,9) |
| SCALLOP | Demand in steep dish of oysters (7) |
| TOUGHIE | Couple eating starter of oysters that's foul stinker (7) |
| OSTIA | Starter of oysters with effervescent Asti and old port |
| PEPVAE | River possibly going over layer of oysters echoed |
| REVERBED | River possibly going over layer of oysters echoed |
