| MOLLYMALONE | The subject of an Irish song who cries, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!" (5,6) |
| NORA | Is Maggie the subject of an Irish folk song, or an alternative one? (4) |
| ANAEROBES | They're "alive, alive-O!" |
| DANNY | Boy in an Irish song |
| LILT | Many an Irish song |
| LOORA | "Toora" follower in an Irish song |
| MALONE | Molly, heroine of an Irish folk song who sold cockles and mussels on the streets of Dublin (6) |
| BARRYLYNDON | William Makepeace Thackeray's novel of an Irish rogue, The Luck Of ... (5,6) |
| MOLLY | - Malone; purveyor of cockles and mussels in an Irish folk song of an same name which is recognised as Dublin's unofficial anthem (5) |
| CHATTERLEYS | Lady _ _, novel by D H Lawrence, the subject of an obscenity trial in 1960 (11,5) |
| ALIVE | "Crying cockles and mussels, ..., ..., oh" (Molly Malone) (5) |
| ALIVEO | It's repeated in "Cockles and Mussels" |
| SEAFARER | Salt needed for cockles and mussels, right? (8) |
| SHELLFISH | She'll take marine life to be cockles and mussels (9) |
| AGENT | In grammar, the doer of an action, typically expressed as the subject of an active verb (5) |
| ERE | "___ the long roll of the ages end" (start of an old Irish song) |
| BIVALVE | A mollusc of the class Pelecypoda, which includes clams, cockles, oysters and mussels |
| SEASHELLS | Featuring in the rocaille rockwork of grottoes and later in aspects of rococo, the "coquilles" or "conchiglie" of angel wings, cockles, jingles, periwinkles, volutes, wentletraps and other marine moll |
| TELL | William ---, a folk hero of Switzerland, the subject of an opera by Rossini (4) |
| REVERE | Paul, American patriot who was the subject of an 1863 poem by Longfellow (6) |
