| RENEGADE | Grenade exploded in front of Eastern dissident (8) |
| SEMINARY | Mines exploded in front of a railway training institution (8) |
| EXEGESIS | Interpretation was, say, placed in front of eastern relative shortly (8) |
| CARESS | Pet vehicle is in front of eastern ship |
| ENDANGER | Put at risk as nitrogen in grenade exploded (8) |
| OUTBURST | In the open-air, exploded in fit of temper (8) |
| GENDARME | Grenade exploded around maiden and armed policeman in France |
| SHRAPNEL | Henry ?, British artillery officer; inventor of a shell that exploded in flight, scattering lead shot (8) |
| IRRUPTED | Forcibly exploded in papers covering Rupert Cook (8) |
| THAILAND | A fireworks factory exploded in this SE Asian country (8) |
| AUTOBAHN | A U-boat, to begin with, has never exploded in German transport lanes (8) |
| ANDERSON | Ryder Jackson's girlfriend who was injured after their food truck exploded in Home and Away (5,8) |
| KRAKATOA | Volcano that famously exploded in 1883 |
| MANPOWER | Personnel weapon exploded in mortar’s casing |
| ENDANGERED | Put in jeopardy as grenade exploded next to border |
| RANGEDEFENDERS | Grenade exploded by fireside frames in 1937 B-movie (5,9) |
| TAMBORA | Volcanic mountain in Indonesia that exploded in 1815 in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history (7) |
| ENGARDE | Grenade exploded on guard (2,5) |
| DERANGE | Grenade exploded to madden (7) |
| ENRAGED | Grenade exploded, grandee wounded, furiously angered? |
