| TERRITORY | End of the cause (Part 5) |
| ORGANDIE | Material that causes part of the body to wither away (8) |
| STANDARDBEARER | Leader of the cause is the usual holder of the cheque (8,6) |
| DEFUSE | Fed up; work to get rid of the cause of tension |
| DUETO | Two singers get no score - this could be part of the cause (3,2) |
| APOSTATE | Abandoner of the cause |
| ADOPTION | Endorsement, ... of the cause |
| CADUCEUS | Most of the cause includes Italian leader with Hermes' staff (8) |
| FOUNDFAULT | Located the cause of the trouble and criticised (5, 5) |
| TREASON | After the start of the trial, argue the cause of crime |
| UNIMAGINABLE | 'Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is ___.' Lynne Truss |
| LABOUR | "The cause of ______ is the cause of Ireland", James Connolly. (6) |
| EDMUNDBURKE | 18th-century British Whig statesman regarded as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) |
| EBOLAVIRUS | EBOV, the cause of a severe, often lethal haemorrhagic fever (5,5) |
| PROPAGANDA | The organised dissemination of information to assist or damage the cause of a government or movement (10) |
| DOORJAMB | Building part sounds like the cause of the entranceway being stuck (4,4) |
| ARSENALS | The contents of these magazines can be the cause of disturbing reports (8) |
| CHERCHEZLAFEMME | She'll be the cause of the problem - Czech female and her male crush (8,2,5) |
| GUMDROPS | Surgery by medical practitioner on part of mouth - the cause? |
| RINGLEADER | Call Johnson, say, the cause of all the trouble? (10) |
