| KINGDOMCOME | Characters in mode for mocking the end of the world (7,4) |
| IRONIC | Mocking the inclusion of oxygen in ricin compound (6) |
| DOWRY | Note mocking the cost of the partnership? (5) |
| NOBLEMINDED | Morally high, but trying to be in 'blend-in' mode (5,6) |
| VARGASLLOSA | Nobel Prize-winning (2010) Peruvian author of novels including La casa verde (1966; The Green House) and La guerra del fin del mundo (1981; The War of the End of the World) (6,5) |
| ULTIMATHULE | An old name for the northern end of the world |
| ASTEROID | It causes the end of the world in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World |
| RAGNAROK | In Scandinavian mythology, the end of the world of gods and men will be preceded by cruel winters and moral chaos. Giants and demons approaching from all points of the compass will attack the gods, wh |
| WHEELCHAIR | Go around with a rich criminal in mode of transport (10) |
| DENOMINATIONAL | Dressed in mode, citizen of a particular faith (14) |
| ARMAGEDDON | In the New Testament, scene of the battle which marks the end of the world (10) |
| BEACH | Apparently Ava Gardner never said that Melbourne was the ideal place to make a film about the end of the world; the film she was making there in 1959 was On The ... |
| REVISER | Restricted is in ever changing mode for him (7) |
| FROMTHEWORDGO | Mode for growth disputed since the very beginning (4,3,4,2) |
| DEFAULTSETTING | *Mode for a just-purchased piece of software |
| ELECTRIC | Plug-in mode of transport (8) |
| UGLY | New York series set in Mode magazine, ... Betty (4) |
| MEDALLION | Everything in mode gets thrown out as jewellery (9) |
| MATSUTAKE | Type of mushroom in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's "The Mushroom at the End of the World" |
| LORGNETTE | Eye-wear designed by Englishman George Adams which became a la mode for the 19th century opera fan |
