| HALFCENTURY | Period of fifty years (4-7) |
| GOLDENRULE | Do as you would be done by, in reign of fifty years? (6,4) |
| LYSANDER | Hermia's lover of fifty years - a smoother operator |
| GOLDEN | Beginning to glean from the past description of fifty years? |
| PERMANENTLY | Always Russian city about fifty years behind |
| ECHINACEA | This daisy-like flower from North America was unheard-of fifty years ago - now we take its extract t |
| THEEXORCIST | Fifty years after starring in this classic horror film, 90-year-old Ellen Burstyn returned this month in a featured role in a direct sequel to the original |
| GOLDENWEDDING | Celebration of 50 years' marriage (6,7) |
| ANGELS | Fifty years after the invention of the motor bike, this name was given to leather jacketed outlaws of the 50s; Hell's ... |
| JAWS | Shark-based Spielberg film that is fifty years old (4) |
| HUMECRONYN | Canadian-born actor who was married to Jessica Tandy for over fifty years (4,6) |
| CANADALILY | May a surrealist work fifty years to produce something blooming orange? (6,4) |
| ISRAELPOTTER | 1855 novel by Herman Melville subtitled His Fifty Years of Exile |
| DECIDEDLY | Police in action taking fifty years? Without question! (9) |
| EVEREST | It's fifty years since they knocked this bastard off |
| OLD | Fifty years your senior, e.g. |
| RELAYS | About fifty years' collected broadcasts |
| SEEMLY | Appropriate to understand, having married fifty years later |
| STRANGELY | Way over mountains takes fifty years, unusually |
| BULLYOFFS | Fans surrounding learner, fifty years old, once hockey starts |
