| CARRIERPIGEON | Creature with message in horror film, quietly breaking equipment over time (7,6) |
| BRIGANDAGE | Group acquiring equipment over time in banditry (10) |
| MEMORIAL | The writer with message in story about one monument? |
| REPEL | Push back a spool of film quietly in the middle (5) |
| FORALLMANKIND | Pinnacle: men of America walked out with message from 1 (2,4,2,5,3,3,7) |
| LEONARDO | _ Dicaprio, actor whose first film role was in horror film Critters 3 (8) |
| DEEPFROZEN | Like fish in Iceland, quietly breaking free somehow in ewer? (4-6) |
| PICKAXES | Single out a male, say, upset with ground-breaking equipment (8) |
| YOMP | March with heavy equipment over difficult terrain (4) |
| STKITTS | Way equipment over the way was taken to island in the Caribbean (2,5) |
| CARRIE | Girl in horror film making noise like bear (6) |
| THESHINING | Object concealing trap first off in horror film |
| ERASERHEAD | A red hearse, weird in horror film (10) |
| THEFOG | Dress protecting male and female in horror film (3,3) |
| ASTIMEGOESBY | Boy with message -it comes out in film song (2,4,4,2) |
| NITPICK | Italian quietly breaking in to steal carp (3-4) |
| BORISKARLOFF | English actor known for his roles in horror films, including that of Frankenstein's monster in three movies in the 1930s (5,7) |
| KARLOFF | US film actor, Boris noted for his performances in horror films (7) |
| KIDULT | Breaking equipment is mostly boring for those young at heart (6) |
| HANDPICK | Carefully select worker having ground-breaking equipment (4-4) |
