| ILLFATED | Destined for bad luck |
| AMBSACE | From Latin for "both ones", a word for the lowest possible throw at dice, aka snake eyes, thus an archaic term for bad luck or worthlessness (4-3) |
| BADACTOR | Dirty player isn't destined for the bigger stage (3,5) |
| GUNPARTS | Stock and barrels destined for an assembly line of a major employer (3,5) |
| SAFETYNET | Provision for bad luck (6,3) |
| HIGHBORN | Destined for nobility |
| UNBEATEN | Destined for the playoffs |
| DOGGYBAG | It may hold some take-away destined for the lab |
| BARBECUE | Fish trimmed and attached to stick, destined for this? |
| FIGHTERS | Aircraft destined for scrap (8) |
| WARPLANE | Aircraft destined for scrap |
| BATHCUBE | A block destined for hot water |
| MATTRESS | The rest, bustling, carried in rugs destined for the bedroom |
| WERENT | "If it ___ for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all" ("Hee Haw" song lyric) |
| WASTEPAPER | Destroy rag that's destined for recycling (5,5) |
| TOCAPITALL | Destined for Great Lake as the last thing (2,3,2,3) |
| ARTCOLLECTION | The knack to taking the offertory that's destined for the Vatican museum, for one (3,10) |
| BOUND | Destined for the jump (5) |
| HACKSAW | What journalist witnessed is destined for cutting (4-3) |
| HOMEWARDBOUND | Bound or destined for home (8,5) |
