| TACITLY | Without words, a metal number divides a large town (7) |
| FELON | Criminal having a hand in heavy metal number making a comeback (5) |
| INGOT | Some heavy metal number I acquired touring (5) |
| ORBITAL | Descriptive of a road or motorway encircling a large town (7) |
| REDLINE | It divides a hockey rink in half |
| NOTICED | Observed (or if treated as two words, a description of a lukewarm drink?) (7) |
| SLICKER | Dweller in a large town seen as over-sophisticated and untrustworthy (4,7) |
| PAUCITY | Shortage that's turned up, involving a large town (7) |
| PHRASED | Put into words a bit at a time in writing perhaps? On the contrary (7) |
| CUTINTO | Interrupt the course of how to divide a cake in two, say (3,4) |
| SEVERAL | Divide a pound into three or four |
| PUNJABI | Play on words, a dig, one in a foreign tongue |
| PICTURE | Said to be worth 1,000 words, a drawing, painting or other image (7) |
| READING | A large town in the county where Windsor Castle and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are located (7) |
| OPACITY | Work next to a large town in obscurity |
| SILVERY | Word meaning argent, gleaming like moonlight or sounding bright; or, as two words, a noctuid moth with distinctive grey forked wing markings, as seen in flight (7) |
| TENANTS | Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| FLOURISH | From a word for a bloom, an ornamental curve; a grandiose passage of music or words; a mass of blossom on a tree; or, a fanfare (8) |
| POSTIL | From "after those words", a marginal note, as in a Bible; a series of these, as a commentary; a homily; or, a book of homilies/sermons (6) |
| AGENTS | Talleyrand's inauguration divides a French town's representatives (6) |
