| SOUTHAMERICAN | Exposed meat, covered in arsenic, poisoned a continental person? (5,8) |
| BEEFWELLINGTON | Dish with meat covered in pate and baked in pastry (4,10) |
| AFOOLSERRAND | Idiot found covered in arsenic taken to task for looking for a bucket of steam (1,4'1,6) |
| MANTLE | Nitrogen encased in metal poisoned a layer of earth (6) |
| SERB | A Continental person of Slavonic origins? |
| REVEALED | Exposed meat in the long grass (8) |
| PIE | A dish of baked meat covered with pastry |
| ATHENS | Capital in those days invested in arsenic (6) |
| SHEPHERDSPIE | Minced meat covered with mash potato (9,3) |
| FLAMBE | Serve up meat covered by fire, extremely? |
| MORTIMER | ___ Brewster, Cary Grant's role in Arsenic and Old Lace |
| CAUSECELEBRE | Controversy because cereals deficient in arsenic are adulterated (5,7) |
| POISONER | Aunt in "Arsenic and Old Lace," e.g. |
| ADAIR | Jean who played Aunt Martha in "Arsenic and Old Lace" |
| ASSAYS | Quantitative and qualitative assessments of Sulfur, for example, in Arsenic (6) |
| POISONDOT | *Feature of the i in "arsenic"? |
| OLDLACE | "One of our gentlemen found time to say, 'How delicious!' before he died," explained Cary Grant's murderous aunt in Arsenic And ... (3,4) |
| MODUSOPERANDI | Method of killing husband? Had poisoned rum slyly (5,8) |
| KUMISSOFDEATH | Fermented mare's milk beverage that's been poisoned? |
| ELATUS | In Greek mythology, a centaur killed during a battle with Heracles by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee |