| GROATS | Old coins — tons in Argos circulating |
| INCENTIVE | Popular coin — the writer's stimulus |
| PINEMARTENS | Mammals, marine, wild — tons kept in enclosures |
| TRIPE | Food — tons ready for eating |
| ACETATE | Salt brill — tons consumed |
| GASTROPUB | Quiet in Argos, but rioting in fancy burger bar? |
| CHICAGO | Musical goods picked up by character in Argos (7) |
| CHINA | Plates from a batch in Argos? (5) |
| DIDRACHM | Character with identity remitted hot money, cash used in Argos? |
| ZETA | Unknown delivery time character in Argos revealed (4) |
| EPSILON | Character in Argos, another wearing Musk? (7) |
| LESSING | Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook and the Canopus in Argos series (7) |
| AORTA | Vessel carries more in middle - tons in two areas |
| SHOTPUTTER | Tons in store, say, for competitor in field event (4-6) |
| TATTLE | Gossip, tons and tons in story (6) |
| METRICATE | Bring in tonnes... tons in rice, meat trade (9) |
| STAUSTELL | Tons in employment in stable clay mining town (2,7) |
| CATALEPTIC | After Tiger beer, perhaps, tons in photo can be in a stiff trance (10) |
| ODYSSEY | Homeric epic in 24 books in which the wandering king of Ithaca returns home after 10 years to be recognised only by his faithful dog, Argos (7) |
| SHORTTON | Unit of weight in the avoirdupois system equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18 kg) in the United States. The long ton in Britain, to which this unit is often compared, is equivalent to 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 |
