| SERIALKILLER | Author of a succession of dispatches |
| LEOI | First of a succession of 13 |
| CHEKA | First of a succession of Soviet state security organisations (5) |
| HEIR | Part of a succession plan |
| SWELL | An adept, bigwig, dandy, don or fop; a gentle hillock; a crescendo followed by a diminuendo; or, a succession of oceanic waves (5) |
| POSTHOC | Logical fallacy of assuming that a succession of events has a causal link (4,3) |
| DYNASTY | A succession of hereditary monarchs; or, a sequence of prominent figures from one family (7) |
| MELODY | A succession of musical notes forming a distinctive sequence (6) |
| SNIP | Cut with a small quick stroke or a succession of small quick strokes (4) |
| DYNASTIC | Pertaining to a succession of generations of the same family (8) |
| WHISTLESTOP | Like a tour involving brief appearances in a succession of places |
| STREAK | An irregular line of contrasting colour, fat in bacon, lightning or mineral powder; or, a succession of luck, whether good or bad (6) |
| TRAIN | Teach a succession of people |
| DAISYCHAIN | A succession of small bloomers (5,5) |
| ALIASES | Con artists may adopt a succession of them |
| CROCODILETEARS | False emotion a succession of children's displayed about race |
| COMETOBLOWS | Revive Blues, to begin a succession of hits? |
| INTURN | Shut up, listening as a succession of things happen |
| BREAK | Interrupt a succession of shots (5) |
| STREAM | A succession of them in the water (6) |
