| CARCASES | Motor shells or bodies (8) |
| CONTOURS | The outlines of masses of land, figures or bodies (8) |
| ANTI | Prefix with knock or bodies |
| LIAISON | Co-operation that facilitates a close working relationship between people or bodies (7) |
| ESCAROLE | A breaded cutlet or schnitzel, named for its apparent resemblance to a fanned shell or for the manner in which it is cooked, like said coquille (8) |
| SHRAPNEL | Fragments of a shell or bomb (8) |
| OFFWHITE | Neutral colour/shade similar to cream, chalk, ivory, egg shell or vanilla (3-5) |
| PASTA | Food such as spiral-shaped fusilli, conchiglie shells or farfalle in the shape of bow ties or butterflies' wings (5) |
| DUDS | Word for clothes that has become a slang word for defective things or fizzles such as misfiring shells or dishonoured cheques (4) |
| COCKLE | Mollusc with heart-shaped shells; or, a pucker in cloth or paper (6) |
| AMMO | Shotgun shells or a grenade for short |
| SPENT | Like some shells or money |
| OCTOPI | Sea critters without shells or fins |
| LEI | Polynesian string of shells or flowers (3) |
| SCALLOP | Mollusc with fan-shaped shells; or, a potato slice cooked in batter (7) |
| MANCALA | Board game that can be played with cowry shells or stones |
| CLOPS | Makes hoof-fall sounds (with either coconut shells or hooves) |
| COXSWAINS | "Boat servants/boys" turned captains of lifeboats, commanders of crews, helmsmen of racing shells or steerswomen of pairs/eights (9) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
