| THREEPENCE | Half a sixpence (10) |
| STEELE | 1967 Half a Sixpence actor, Tommy ------ (6) |
| HEADS | Half a sixpence? (5) |
| HAS | Owns half a sixpence, firstly (3) |
| TOMMYSTEELE | Star of Half a Sixpence (5,6) |
| KIPPS | HG Wells novel inspiring the musical Half A Sixpence (5) |
| TOMMY | Singer and actor who starred in 1967 film musical Half a Sixpence (5,6) |
| SPRAT | An old word for a sixpence; a small herring-like brisling; or, with "weather", the dark days of November and December, said to be favourable for catching such a fish (5) |
| TANNER | Informal word for a sixpence |
| AVID | Greedy for a sixpence? (4) |
| HALF | _ a Sixpence, film musical (4) |
| TANNHAUSER | 12's minstrel finds sixpence around his residence (10) |
| HALFGUINEA | An old coin worth ten shillings and sixpence (4-6) |
| TESTER | A tizzy or sixpence; a quizzer or examiner; a canopy over a four-poster bed; or, a miniature pot of paint, a sample or a scent, for one to try (6) |
| MAUGHAM | Born in Paris and orphaned aged 10,a writer remembered for a number of novels including The Moon and Sixpence, The Painted Veil and Cakes and Ale (7) |
| STILE | "He found a crooked sixpence, Against a crooked ___" |
| OFRYE | "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full __ ___". (2,3) |
| RYE | "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of ___ ..." |
| DISC | General word for a flat, round object, such as a silver sixpence, chocolate coin, platter, quoit, Frisbee or gramophone record (4) |
| ANZAC | A new sixpence king dropped for a soldier (5) |
