| THROWTOTHEDOGS | Abandon to fate of dustsheet, in the direction of shadows (5,2,3,4) |
| COVERUP | Deceit using a vertical dustsheet? (5,2) |
| COVER | Dustsheet |
| DISOWN | Abandon to the winds swirling round in (6) |
| THEIR | Genderless term the Irish must abandon to some extent |
| FALSELYREPORTED | Self-portrayed lies I abandon to reveal how fake news comes to be. (7-8) |
| SEEWHATHAPPENS | Watch an action film "Leave Things To Fate"? (3,4,7) |
| LAPOF | In the __ the gods (left to fate) |
| BONDS | Baseball great who was the subject of the 2006 best seller "Game of Shadows" |
| SPIRITLEVELS | They have a way of setting things straight in The House by determining the number of Shadow members presumably? (6,6) |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
| SKIAGRAM | To grasp location of grand mausoleum, cursorily study photo of shadows |
| IGLOO | A lot of shadows behind one house in the North |
| OMAHA | Nebraska city home to the Museum of Shadows |
| FATALISM | Doctrine that all events are subject to fate, and happen by unavoidable necessity (8) |
| FLEES | Refuses to fate about fifty charges (5) |
| DOTCOM | Online business resigns court to fate (6) |
| FLATFEET | No personal arches that could be left to fate, perhaps? (4,4) |
| HARRIS | Jared -; actor who played Professor Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and Valery Legasov in Chernobyl (6) |
| GRIMOIRE | Magical textbook or collection of spells, e.g. a Book of Shadows used in Wicca (8) |
