| FIRING | From the early fifties, encompass sacking |
| FIZZ | Bubble from the early fifties with comic sleeping indicators |
| GTYPES | Alvis-engined Healey roadsters from the early Fifties (1-5) |
| NASHHEALEYS | Anglo-American sports cars from the early 1950s (4-7) |
| GOOGIEWITHERS | Actress, best-known in the Forties and early Fifties, who played governor Faye Boswell in Within These Walls |
| CROMIE | Brother of Featherbed designer Rex, this Northern Irishman scored wins at the Isle of Man and the Ulster GP in the early 1950s. (6,10) |
| MCCANDLESS | Brother of Featherbed designer Rex, this Northern Irishman scored wins at the Isle of Man and the Ulster GP in the early 1950s. (6,10) |
| ARONDE | All-new car from Simca that arrived in the early 1950s (6) |
| RAMBLER | Which Nash car model of the early 1950s was considered to be the first US compact car? (7) |
| MCCARTHYISM | Anti-communist campaign in the US government in the early 1950s |
| MAYFLOWERS | Two-door Triumph saloons sold in the early 1950s (10) |
| REGALS | Reliant three-wheelers launched in the early 1950s (6) |
| ELAL | Airline in the early 1950s' Operation Ali Baba |
| NAMES | These have been assigned to hurricanes since the early 1950's |
| ROCKNROLL | US musical genre that broke into public consciousness in the early 1950s, and went on to have a revolutionary, lasting influence on pop music (4,1,4) |
| ACRILAN | Brand-name synthetic textile named by Monsanto in the early 1950s (7) |
| EVAPERON | Argentina's de facto health and labour minister in the early 1950s |
| SALK | Jonas ___, US virologist who developed a vaccine against polio in the early 1950s (4) |
| MCCARTHY | Which US senator led a campaign against supposed communist subversion in the early 1950s? (8) |
| AUTOCROSS | Timed motor-racing around a course of rough or unfinished terrain, originating in Britain in the early 1950s (9) |
