| OXIDISED | Rusty old team faded about halfway through Tests (8) |
| SWEATSHOP | Setters put through tests bound for hard work here |
| DIEDOWN | Subside, having faded about now (3,4) |
| SUPPOSED | Imagined to be soused (i.e., drunk) about halfway through supper (8) |
| PASTORAL | Reportedly got through test of country life (8) |
| SHABBLES | Saboteur (he's first inside) all but to laud rusty old swords |
| TEXTBOOK | Publication selected and hired old team leader (bachelor) (8) |
| SHINGTON | Old team, the ___ Senators |
| OCT | What we're about halfway through with: abbr. |
| UNITY | One can start to unwind about halfway through honeymoon |
| INLET | New line about halfway through Montego Bay (5) |
| ISUPTONOGOODNIK | Has read about halfway through a Yinglish dictionary? |
| OFFFORM | Rusty old, old nails very, very strong, marines concluding (3,4) |
| CUTTYSARK | Tangle of tack and rusty old ship (5,4) |
| OXIDISING | Old team digs in frantically, though going rusty (9) |
| OXIDATING | Old team showing its age, getting rusty? (9) |
| OXIDISE | New side, after old team get rusty (7) |
| SAMOA | Independent island state about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand (5) |
| NINTH | Plugging Isopon in the hole, about halfway round (5) |
| OCALA | Gainesville is about halfway between it and Jacksonville |
