| ORDNANCE | Shells from a howitzer |
| GUN | A howitzer is a big one (3) |
| BERTHA | Big ___ is a golf club, named after a howitzer (6) |
| RHODEISLANDRED | A fine layer of shells from America (5,6,3) |
| EKUELE | Shells from Efik, usable like shortlived African currency |
| TACOS | Shells from stands |
| WRASSE | Take shells from water, anxious, and see fish |
| SKEP | Scoop up shells from snack and eggcup (4) |
| TIMBALE | Dish of minced meat, fish etc. cooked with other ingredients in a cup-shaped mould or shell; from French, 'drum' (7) |
| GROUCH | Shell from gunner that hurts, making us moan |
| RIGHTO | Removing shell from Sussex beach is OK |
| MOTHERLY | Protective shell from military crosses different line |
| GRAPESHOT | Shell from grenade-launcher behaves like burning ammunition |
| SCROUNGE | Sponge divers source shell from galleon (8) |
| SHUCKED | Removed the husk or shell from |
| CARICATURIST | Shell from Costa Rica, ordinary to ignore in sightseer's drawer (12) |
| SHRAPNEL | Bits of shell from planes flying across there regularly (8) |
| STARRYEYED | ___ ___ am I, knowing that when I try, to forget you, love brings me out of my shell: from Margaret Urlich's 1989 NZ No.1, Escaping (6-4) |
| CLAM | Mollusc shell from Lima, just under half an inch across |
| ZITHER | No shout of pain from howitzer, dangerous instrument (6) |
