Related Clues:

• Mercury, on the periodic table
• Figure's rather heavy, not wide
• Remove head from heavy figure
• Eight times 24-Across
• Four score — important when opener is dismissed
• Top important figure
• Scalp important figure
• Highest keno number
• Figure very important to dismiss Head
• Significant wicket falling — score short of a hundred
• Number of days it took Phileas Fogg to go around the world
• Figure important, though not the first
• Wounded GI and the unknown pensioner might be so old
• Number serious, though first ignored
• Scores four? Many more