| SIXPENCE | Prior to 14.2.1966, what was five cents known as (8) |
| HALFDIME | Silver coin equal to five cents |
| ROCKSTAR | Post Malone and 21 Savage song that was #5 on Billboard's 2018 Year-End Hot 100 |
| AYERS | Who served as a parliamentarian for 36 years, and between 1863 and 1873 was five times Premier of South Australia? (5) |
| MESS | "...but Benjamin's ___ was five times so much" (Gen 43:34) |
| OLD | "And Noah was five hundred years ___" (Ge 5:32) |
| CROWN | Off the top of one's head, it was five bob (5) |
| JORDAN | Michael who was five-time N.B.A. M.V.P. |
| BOGGS | Wade who was five-time A.L. batting champ |
| BURMA | Polish revolutionary attached to mother country, as was (5) |
| SCOTT | Great novelist said to be what he was (5) |
| FANGIO | Juan Manuel, Argentine F1 racing driver who was five-time champion in the 1950s (6) |
| BEACHVOLLEYBALL | Kerri Walsh Jennings was five weeks pregnant when she won gold in this sport at the 2012 London Olympics |
| ECUADOR | Jose Maria Velasco was five times president (by election or coup) of this South American nation |
| NICKELODEON | Early type of cinema, so named because it cost five cents to get in |
| MAJOR | Important, as PM once was (5) |
| DEPTH | He'd upheld PT to show how far down it was (5) |
| STEPS | Vocal quintet whose debut hit was 5, 6, 7, 8 in 1997 (5) |
| HARRY | _ Styles, topped the chart with As It Was (5) |
| SWISS | Let William Tell tell what he was (5) |