| AUREATE | The poet loses fifty for a start but gets gold nevertheless |
| EERIE | That is always poetic for a start, but creepy (5) |
| EXTENDS | Text ends, doesn't start but gets longer (7) |
| SPOOL | A bookie rings fifty for a device around which something can be wound |
| EVENS | Steven Spielberg shows it's fifty-fifty for a punter (5) |
| ORIGINATE | Give a start but ignore it, a change being required (9) |
| HOOVER | It's nonsense admitting fifty for a wild party (6) |
| DEBUT | Only a start, but you finish in debt |
| SLAVE | Save about fifty for a chattel |
| THRACE | Time classical poet loses love for the old country |
| HORRID | Torrid but has a new start but is still extremely unpleasant (6) |
| RUMBA | Dance fragment: missing the start, but with a conclusion |
| LEFTATTHEPOST | Made a bad start, but allowed to remain in the job (4,2,3,4) |
| AGO | A good start, but in the past (3) |
| SINNER | The winner lost his head, got a new start but did some nasty things (6) |
| LENNON | Famous Liverpudlian flag, 50 for a penny |
| CHANCE | It's 50-50 for a coin flip |
| COBBER | The bootmaker loses fifty mate |
| PIROUETTE | Private eye loses fifty in roulette spin (9) |
| SAY | Suppose aunt (being fair game) loses fifty quid |
