| SWATHED | Bound to crush a missing head (7) |
| SQUEEZE | A clasp, clutch, cuddle or cwtch; a close crowd or crush; a credit crunch; or, a chirt of citrus juice, obtained by scruzing (7) |
| ESCAPED | Fled in case bats flew, just missing head (7) |
| HADDOCK | Fish, shad, missing head and tail (7) |
| EMIRATE | Leave country missing head of Gulf state (7) |
| MEASLES | Complaint from this writer as beer's missing head (7) |
| EXALTED | Praised former lover and stopped missing head (7) |
| OFFENCE | Fault spoilt coins: missing head (7) |
| CONQUER | Crush a nut noisily |
| HAWFINCH | With a large beak powerful enough to crush a cherry or olive stone, a waxwing-like bird related to the evening grosbeak (8) |
| ASHAMED | Sorry criminal has identified missing head |
| PATHAN | Possible Afghan way to crush a rebellion at last |
| PENURY | Need peer to crush a Parisian uprising |
| BREAKALEG | Good luck, it's said, to crush a part (5,1,3) |
| PESTO | From Italian for "pound, crush", a sauce of basil crushed in a mortar with a similarly named utensil (5) |
| BANGERSANDMASH | Old cars also crush a dish (7,3,4) |
| ABJECT | A thing with missing head and base |
| ELATE | Tell missing head to cheer up |
| ACEIT | Completely crush a final exam |
| PASHA | Crush a Muslim dignitary |
