| OPENFIRE | Execution squad's instructions in the hearth? (4,4) |
| OPENFIREPLACE | Execution squad's instructions point to the hearth (4,9) |
| BYFIRING | Goya's painting The Third of May shows an execution .. ...... squad (2,6) |
| FIRINGPARTY | Execution squad (6,5) |
| STAGEDIRECTIONS | Instructions in the text of a play indicating the movement, position and tone of an actor (5,10) |
| FLYAWAYPAUL | Instructions in the nursery, just after Peter's take-off? (3,4,4) |
| FIREGUARD | Give man on train the sack for standing in the hearth? (9) |
| TRUNK | A bole or log of a tree customarily burnt in the hearth at Christmas or represented in chocolate as a buche de Noel, for example; a blanket box; or, a travel chest (5) |
| FIREDOG | I forged alloy in the hearth (7) |
| STOKE | Tend a fire in the hearth |
| FIRESCREEN | I stand in the hearth and shoot films (10) |
| YULE | ___ log; wood in the hearth at Christmastime |
| ASH | Powder found in the hearth (3) |
| EMBER | Leftover bit in the hearth (5) |
| TAUT | Tense, given instruction in the auditorium (4) |
| LESSON | Instruction in the result of stripping? (6) |
| BORDERED | An instruction in the garden provided an edge (8) |
| LESSEN | Reduce classroom instruction in the auditorium (6) |
| FIRSTLESSON | Prime piece of instruction in the service (5,6) |
| LOG | Yule___; small tree trunk traditionally burnt in the hearth on Christmas Eve; or, a chocolate cake similar to a "buche de Noel (3) |
