| ROCKANDROLL | Pop music from the 1950s (4,3,4) |
| CLASSIC | Like rock music from the 1950s-'70s, now |
| ROCKNROLL | Pop music from the 50s (4,1,4) |
| HARPSICHORD | Keyboard instrument in which strings are set in vibration by plucking. It was one of the most important keyboard instruments in European music from the 16th through the first half of the 18th century. |
| ENTERTAINER | Movie theme music from The Sting, "The ___" (3) |
| JANET | English mezzo-soprano whose career spanned the period from the 1950s to the 80s, Dame ... Baker |
| ESSOBLUE | Paraffin oil advertised on TV from the 1950s to the 1970s by the slogan "Boom, boom, boom, boom ____" |
| PLAYINGBYERA | Listening to music from the '50s, then the '60s, etc.? |
| KOMBI | The popular name for a Volkswagen Type 2 van from the 1950s (5) |
| TUFTY | Red squirrel used in UK children's road safety campaigns from the 1950s to the 1990s (5) |
| AXE | Word for a hatchet since Anglo-Saxon times; or, from the 1950s, a slang term for an electric guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz (3) |
| TONY | _ Hart, artist and children's TV presenter from the 1950s through to the 2000s (4) |
| RAYALAN | Ventriloquist associated with the puppet Lord Charles, from the 1950s-80s (3,4) |
| CHRISTIE | The Queen of Crime from the Fifties to the Seventies, Agatha ... |
| ILOVELUCY | Top-rated sitcom from the 1950s |
| GIGI | Show one musical from the 1950s |
| DORETTIS | Rare Swallow sports models from the 1950s (8) |
| DUAL | _ Ghia, upmarket Detroit/Turin convertible from the 1950s (4) |
| PALM | _ Beach, Allard roadster from the 1950s (4) |
| SQUIRES | Ford estate cars from the 1950s (7) |
