| AVERNUS | Entrance to the underworld could save run being made (7) |
| GRACEFULLY | Fielder saves run close to mid-off easily (10) |
| MYRMIDON | Wow! Fielder saves run - he's a keen backer-up |
| SALVAGE | Is wild about the pounds one could save from the wreckage (7) |
| UNARMED | Made run, being defenceless (7) |
| FLEECED | Cold journalist after run being overcharged |
| ENSNARE | Seen and ran, being involved in trap (7) |
| MANHOLE | A nervous handler starts visiting spy at a portal to the underworld? (7) |
| MERCURY | Roman god of communication and commerce, who guided souls to the underworld (7) |
| ORPHEUS | Mythical Greek poet who went to the underworld (7) |
| RUFFLED | Maybe rabbit turned and ran, being disconcerted |
| DEMETER | Goddess who brought the world fall and winter when her daughter Persephone returned to the Underworld, in Greek myth |
| ACHERON | River to the underworld, in Greek myth |
| CERBERUS | In Greek mythology, the multiheaded hound guarding the entrance to the underworld (8) |
| HERACLES | One of the labours of this warrior was to bring the "monstrous watchdog of the underworld" to the land of the living; after succeeding in doing this, he returned this creature to the underworld. |
| MOUTH | A god ferried all who had received at least token burial to the underworld, and coins were placed in the corpses to pay the fare. In what part of the body were the coins placed? |
| FACEPACK | To confront wolves, say, could save one's skin (4,4) |
| STITCH | Martyr, perhaps, to burn: in time one could save many |
| LIFERAFT | Irrationally fear being in elevator? This could save you (4,4) |
| RESCUE | Secure the letters that could save one (6) |
