| TORTOISESHELL | Mottled yellow-brown shoes or little pants (13) |
| SABOTS | Wooden shoes or small sailing dinghies |
| TACKY | Like wearing a tuxedo and brown shoes |
| BUSTER | ___ Brown shoes |
| WINKLEPICKERS | Pointed shoes or boots popular during the 1950s (13) |
| OLD | ___ Brown Shoe, 1969 Beatles song (3) |
| SUNDRIES | Small pants restricting Republican's bits and bobs (8) |
| GASPS | ...spaces occupied by small pants (5) |
| BETWEEN | Risk small pants in the middle splitting |
| TIGHT | Like too-small pants |
| TAP | One of a sequence of beats, blips, pitapats or raps made by a dancer or hoofer with metal-plated shoes; or, a spigot, spout, stopcock or stroup (3) |
| TOECAPS | Pieces of leather or metal fitted over the end of shoes or boots to protect or strengthen them (7) |
| EYELETS | Peepholes; apertures for the passage of cords, laces, ropes or tapes in corsets, sails, shoes or waistcoats; rings reinforcing these; or, perforations bound with stitching in openwork (7) |
| LASTS | Forms on which shoes or boots are fashioned or repaired (5) |
| KHAKIS | Yellow-brown military pants |
| KHAKI | Yellow-brown fabric often used for pants |
| OCHRE | Earth of yellow, brown or red |
| ROSIN | Colophony derived from pine trees that is applied to violin bows or the soles of a ballerina's pointe shoes or used for sealing wax (5) |
| MAKER | Creator of cabinets, films, hats, shoes or other articles; or, derived from Greek, a word for a poet (5) |
| MAT | Item upon which to place a mouse, plate or a pint of beer, to perform yoga, to wipe one's shoes or to pray (3) |
