| SWORDSWALLOWER | Circus performer in potentially cut-throat business? |
| ROUGEELEPHANT | Circus performer in makeup? |
| SEASONAL | A boy eaten by circus performer in the spring, perhaps (8) |
| ACROBAT | Circus performer in dress almost grabbed by a lion? |
| ACROBATS | Circus performers in lively costa bar (8) |
| THINICE | Work ethic in potentially dangerous base? (4,3) |
| POWDERKEGS | Rough pegs worked in potentially explosive situations (6,4) |
| CANALBOAT | Obsessive bachelor dons fur in potentially tied dwelling (5,4) |
| GERMCELL | Small infection a disappointment, we hear, in potentially new life |
| SLEEPINGBEAUTY | Make a high-pitched noise beside boyfriend in potentially slushy fairytale romance |
| NORTHERLIES | Run around or shelter in potentially cold winds |
| FIDELITY | Accuracy in potentially tidy life |
| RUSSIANROULETTE | USA-run lotteries involved in potentially lethal activity (7,8) |
| POWDERKEG | Prisoner beginning to dismay Greek criminal in potentially explosive situation (6,3) |
| ANTE | Initial gamble when climbing in potentially explosive location |
| CROUP | You end in short cut throat inflammation |
| DOGEATDOG | Magistrate at party good in cut-throat competition (3-3-3) |
| SHARPASARAZOR | Describes intelligent chap bitter to get as close to a cut-throat in the end (5,2,1,5) |
| RAZORBLADE | A cut-throat type of young man in Belgium follows one of those getting rid of walrus? (5,5) |
| SWEENEYTODD | Cut-throat originally endowed with style, left abandoned |
