Possible Clues:

• The main point of this is to come at the end at length (5)
• Cairns, for instance
• Long-shafted weapon
• Weapon corporal may have at the front
• Pointed instrument pressing name into material
• Point carried by spike, as weapon
• Cut open fish
• Does it take him long to come to the point?
• Weapon in the Charge of the Light Brigade
• Tend to a boil