| VALVE | Stopcock; or, each of the halves of the hinged shell of a clam, mussel or oyster (5) |
| TAP | One of a sequence of beats, blips, pitapats or raps made by a dancer or hoofer with metal-plated shoes; or, a spigot, spout, stopcock or stroup (3) |
| VALVES | From the Latin for "folding doors", the hinged shell halves of clams, cockles, mussels, oysters, scallops and other pelecypods (6) |
| BOOKENDS | Simon & Garfunkel album, and a hint to what can precede and follow the halves of the starred answers |
| BIVALVE | Shellfish such as mussel or oyster (7) |
| HAL | Name that's one of the halves of a word in this clue |
| LIMB | In archery, either of the halves of a recurve bow (4) |
| PEARL | A lustrous structure occurring on the inner surface of the shell of a clam or oyster (5) |
| LIMBS | Apparent edges of the discs of the Sun or the Moon; graduated arcs of sextants and quadrants; or, the halves forming archery bows (5) |
| BRUSH | Tail of a fox; a brief encounter; or, each of a pair of implements for playing cymbals or drums (5) |
| LINER | Term used to describe the halves of a shell bearing for a crankshaft (5) |
| BEIGE | A fabric of undyed or unbleached wool; or, the neutral buff-, camel-, ecru-, fawn-, mushroom-, oatmeal- or oyster-like colour of said natural cloth (5) |
| MESSI | Soccer star Lionel who won the Ballon d'Or each of the last four years |
| ROMAN | Caesar, e.g. (or each of the answers to the starred clues?) |
| SHELL | With types used as money or jewellery and studied in conchology, the calcareous exoskeleton of a conch, cowrie, triton, scallop or oyster (5) |
| DIVER | Frogman/woman; an underwater pearl or oyster hunter; or, a loon (5) |
| FRET | Repeated or running architectural ornament such as the Greek key pattern or a meander; or, each of the ridges on a guitar's fingerboard (4) |
| POLE | Device for propelling a barge or for vaulting; or, each of the two opposing points of a magnet (4) |
| NOME | Any one of the race of tiny people in Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy; an Alaskan gold-mining city; or, each of the 42 territorial divisions in ancient Egypt (4) |
| POINTS | Prongs of a deer's antler; values assigned to certain cards in bridge; or, each of the 32 directions |
