| FOOTPAD | Room length first used by old highwayman (7) |
| ELLIPTIC | Condensed e.g. copyright's length first, and reduced credit (8) |
| ARSENIC | Poison used by old ladies in an old comedy |
| PATRICK | Hoax used by old man on Irish saint (7) |
| INQUIRE | Ask for information up north on sheets used by old writer (7) |
| GESTAPO | Postage, say, used by old secret police (7) |
| SCYTHES | As used by old-fashioned swingers in the country field (7) |
| BLIGHTY | From Urdu for "foreign, European" a word, first used by British troops in India, for England, later extending into the First Word War to mean a wound necessitating one's return home (7) |
| INKWELL | Pot much used by old writers still mentioned in advice to printers (7) |
| RODRIGO | Switch to fiddle used by old composer |
| TERMITE | Italian word first used by English for white ant |
| FEETAIL | Lengths first-class pupil went to in this restricted type of estate (3,4) |
| EXCISEMAN | Old cinemas used by old tax collector (9) |
| EXTERNAL | Surface from swimming extra length's first half (8) |
| DISTANCES | Lengths first spanned by balls (9) |
| GENTLEMAN | Originally meant to hang, free old highwayman (9,2,3,4) |
| ROADAGENT | Old highwayman Dora confused with a chivalrous chap? (4,5) |
| TURPIN | Surname of old highwayman Dick (6) |
| CREOLE | Cross language and curses regularly used by old American (6) |
| EPHOD | Record carrier used by old priest with lots (5) |
