| DEATHBLOW | Black inside, rotten old wheat seen in lethal buffet |
| OFFLOADS | Dumps fellow inside rotten old sofa (8) |
| TEABAG | Flawed agate, black inside, is soaked in boiling water (3,3) |
| ADJECTIVE | Word that describes a den that's black inside, cold inside (9) |
| TADPOLE | Immature creature found in rotten old peat (7) |
| TOADSTOOL | Fungus from rotten old toast - gross in the middle |
| SPOILED | Rotten, rotten old pies (7) |
| LEOPARD | Rotten old pear that may be spotted in forest |
| CARBON | Chemical element found right inside rotten bacon (6) |
| SEMOLINA | Poor menials must eat old wheat concoction (8) |
| TRUMPETERS | They play noisily, right inside rotten tree stump (10) |
| HERBAL | Of aromatic plants used to cure Rex Black inside |
| TURBOT | Fish for trout cooked black inside |
| BEMBIX | Loud buzzers made of beryllium alloy, black inside |
| OBSERVE | Watch ever so unreliable, black inside |
| EBON | A poet's hard wood one made black inside (4) |
| BABY | Sweet leaf's black inside (4) |
| LOOKSBAD | Funky gang leader upset, miserable, black inside ... doesn't bode well |
| SPELT | Old wheat species grown as a relict crop, now considered a health food (5) |
| NOODLES | Strands of pasta, rotten old ones (7) |
