| TACO | Word before "Bell" or "shell" |
| HULL | Word for the small green calyx of a raspberry, strawberry or similar soft fruit; the husk of a grain; the pod or shell of beans or peas; the main body or frame of a flying-boat, ship or tank; or, the |
| TEARING | In a hurry to get drink before bell (7) |
| TIDINGS | News of Italian returning before bell sounds |
| HUMDINGER | Knockout, low sound before bell? (9) |
| KENNEL | Muhammad A's adversary before bell regularly needing boxer's corner? (6) |
| OMITTING | Neglecting to ring Tim back before bell is heard (8) |
| SOFT | Word before sell or shell |
| SILL | Ledge or shell below window or door [or |
| BEADS | Decorative glass or shell objects used to make maasai jewellery and belts or to embellish evening or bridal gowns (5) |
| SHOT | Collective pellets or charge in a cartridge or shell; colour-changing silk fabric; or, the casting of a net (4) |
| HUSK | Word, from "little house", for the dry case, pod or shell of a fruit or seed (4) |
| EGG | Word with white or shell |
| SEA | Word that precedes horse or shell |
| SHRAPNEL | Inventor of an artillery shell designed to burst over enemy forces releasing multiple smaller projectiles, this British major has given his name to all bomb or shell fragments |
| VOLAUVENT | From the French for "flight in the breeze", a bouchee a la reine-like puff pastry case or shell filled with chicken or mushroom veloute (3-2-4) |
| TRACER | A bullet or shell made visible in flight by a trail of flames or smoke (6) |
| CRUSTA | Word for a hard coating, layer or shell, such as the crystallised lip of a sugar-dipped cocktail glass (6) |
| POD | A case, hull, husk or shell holding seeds or two proverbial peas (3) |
| PEAPOD | A long leguminous case, hull or shell holding a row of marrowfat seeds or perhaps two proverbially similar human "beans", as Roald "Dahl" would say (6) |
