| REDBEARD | Barbarossa, badly bred, dead centre on road (3-5) |
| HRE | Frederick Barbarossa ruled it for 35 years |
| ABSORBED | Sailor, to a great extent badly bred, becomes engaged (8) |
| EMBRACED | Badly bred, came to be adopted (8) |
| BULLSEYE | Got it dead centre! (3,3,5-3) |
| CARRYOFF | Take away vehicle readily to avoid centre on holiday (5,3) |
| CEMETERY | Dead centre of the dead end (8) |
| CORONERS | Those working in the dead centre of college or on hospital wards (8) |
| HITITOFF | Reach city centre on a break and have a successful first date (3,2,3) |
| MORTUARY | Murray to swirl, dead centre? (8) |
| SIGNEDON | Took benefit from evidence collected at the centre on criminal boss (6,2) |
| PORRIDGE | Good breakfast food for sport centre on narrow hilltop (8) |
| CAROLINE | Woman from capital leaving centre on railway track (8) |
| NUTHATCH | Songbird in roof - snug in the middle on top (8) |
| CRESCENT | Centres on a hundred getting into shape (8) |
| DEBRIS | The badly-bred one's trash! (6) |
| MUTANT | Mongrel receives a name as badly bred |
| BEDRIDDEN | Badly bred, dined staying in PJs? (9) |
| HITTHE | Got it dead centre! (3,3,5-3) |
| EATONESHEARTOUT | Hanker for dead centre, with shade, and fleece ticket seller (3,4,5,3) |
