| SEXTON | Gravedigger has lewd message being broadcast (6) |
| ERRAND | . . . as another random message being held |
| BURIED | Possess confidential info about a group's misdeeds, like a gravedigger? (4,5,3,6,3,6) |
| YORICK | The deceased court jester whose skull is exhumed by the gravedigger in Shakespeare's Hamlet (6) |
| EXTINCT | Put out lewd message with opening censored in court |
| INCOMING | (Of message) being received |
| CRYPTOGRAM | Coded message being received in turn, call Wheeler outside |
| SEXT | One of the canonical hours to send lewd message on phone (4) |
| CHINESEWHISPERS | Showing backbone, join chorus of disapproval about almost cheeky message being garbled |
| SPAMMING | Schemes upset former political leader - unwanted messages being sent (8) |
| KNOWWHERETHE | Possess confidential info about a group's misdeeds, like a gravedigger? (4,5,3,6,3,6) |
| BODIESARE | Possess confidential info about a group's misdeeds, like a gravedigger? (4,5,3,6,3,6) |
| EXHUMER | Gravedigger, at times |
| DEADENDJOB | Gravedigger gets work at gates of hell (4-3,3) |
| SKULLMODEL | Prop for the gravedigger scene in 'Hamlet'? |
| AGGRIEVE | Heartless gravedigger, scrabbling endlessly, got his back up (8) |
| GIDE | French writer held back by gravedigger |
| SPADEWORK | Routine preparation by gravedigger, perhaps (9) |
| UNDERTAKER | Gravedigger |
| DAVEMATTHEWS | "Gravedigger" singer |
