| SHELLFISH | His flesh might be, when about fifty, like a crab (9) |
| MISSILE | Messi dribbles around 1, then 50, like a rocket (7) |
| INSPECTION | Examination of pension, it may be, when about a hundred (10) |
| ZAPPA | Weasels ripped his flesh once |
| ATSEA | Where a baffled person might be when sailing? (2,3) |
| SORRYSTATE | Virginia might be when full of remorse and wretchedness (5,5) |
| EXPERT | A dab hand Peter may have been when about ten (6) |
| CALCULATE | Work out how to act : a clue given, when about fifty (9) |
| QUINTUPLE | Quiet pun, when about fifty, can increase fivefold (9) |
| PALLID | Paid about fifty fifty like death warmed up |
| SALON | It's number fifty - like the back room |
| SIDLE | Try to walk like a crab and slide about (5) |
| SIDEWALK | Where an American pedestrian might amble like a crab? (8) |
| PLOD | 50 like peas in clump (4) |
| INFLICTION | Fashionable novels, when about fifty, can be an imposition (10) |
| ALLUDE | Refer to a duel carried out when about fifty (6) |
| IDLE | When about fifty, might die to do no work (4) |
| CLIENT | He takes professional service for a coin when about fifty-one (6) |
| WELD | Effect a union when about fifty? Yes! (4) |
| ELSE | Otherwise see about it when about fifty (4) |
