| HUXLEY | English novelist 1894-1963; author of Crome Yellow and Mortal Coils (6,6) |
| ALDOUS | English novelist 1894-1963; author of Crome Yellow and Mortal Coils (6,6) |
| EYE | Looker appears in Crome Yellow (3) |
| DEMIGOD | The offspring of a deity and mortal in mythology (7) |
| SAGAS | Old Norse literature has many of these tales of heroes, kings and mortals |
| MERCURY | Roman god of merchants and mediator between the gods and mortals (7) |
| ASHBY | "Teen Wolf" and "Mortal Kombat" (1995) star Linden |
| SPIRAL | With destruction of Paris, the end of mortal coil (6) |
| LAMBERT | Highlander and Mortal Kombat star, Christopher ... (7) |
| PTAH | Creator of gods and mortals, some believed |
| DIE | Shuffle off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and join the bleedin' choir invisible |
| SEEDIER | Shabbier prophet about to shake off mortal coil (7) |
| ABIIT | He shuffled off this mortal coil (syncopated form) |
| PASS | No comment as absent - in fact will leave this mortal coil (4,4) |
| AWAY | No comment as absent - in fact will leave this mortal coil (4,4) |
| PASSESON | Imparts; shuffles off this mortal coil (6,2) |
| SHUFFLEDOFF | Dealt a bad hand, left this mortal coil? (8,3) |
| KICKTHEBUCKET | Shuffle off this mortal coil (4,3,6) |
| PERISH | Shuffle off this mortal coil (6) |
| DIES | Shuffles off this mortal coil |
