| MADEINTHESHADE | Successful, in the '50s |
| OUTHAUL | The wrong sheet can help one to become successful, in the main (7) |
| PANNEDOUT | Was successful in the end |
| PANOUT | Be successful in the end |
| MEDALED | Was successful in the Olympics |
| WORKS | Proves successful in the plant (5) |
| SPRINTER | He won't be so successful in the long run (8) |
| PASSED | Was successful in the exam, working with spades (6) |
| ABBA | Swedish pop group very successful in the 1970s (4) |
| RAISETHEMONEY | To be successful in the world of investments? Presumably grow cash on trees! (5,3,5) |
| SM | Pop magazine hugely successful in the'80s. (5,4) |
| LOWING | Be successful in the wood sounding like cattle (6) |
| ACHIEVE | Be successful in the part of a Chinese woman (7) |
| MAGNATE | Someone who becomes very successful in the newspaper or oil business (7) |
| MOUSETRAP | For catching vermin, it has been successful in the long run (9) |
| ADAMSON | She raised the lion cub, Elsa, to maturity and release back into the wild in Kenya in the 50s, Born |
| PAULANKA | He was a teen singing icon in the 50s and 60s, wrote the lyrics for Sinatra's My Way and sang a duet with Lisa Simpson in The Simpsons episode, Treehouse of Horror VI (4,4) |
| SATAY | In the 50s the street vendors of Beach Road, Singapore were known as the ... Club for this skewered |
| RADIO | Before the introduction of television in the 50s, this was the main source of news and entertainment |
| ESSO | Early sign of proliferating petrol in the '50s was in the possessors of that product! (4) |
