| THIRDHAND | Indirect hint hard to decipher overwhelming daughter (5-4) |
| BAKINGPOWDER | Cooking ingredient is very hot, potency overwhelming daughter (6,6) |
| WISECRACK | Old-fashioned way to decipher witty remark |
| ILLEGIBLE | Very difficult to decipher (9) |
| INTRODUCE | Bring in Turin code to decipher (9) |
| STONE | It can be very hard to decipher notes (5) |
| SPHINX | Penny breaks tibia leading to X-ray, one hard to decipher (6) |
| CRAMP | Muscular pain will make one's writing hard to decipher (5) |
| SCRATCH | Chicken ___ (hard-to-decipher writing) |
| CRABBED | Note on old English poet hard to decipher (7) |
| CRABBE | Poet hard to decipher, for the most part |
| DEADPAN | College fellow holding fragments of pad that's hard to decipher |
| CODES | Digests of laws in hard-to-decipher languages |
| RUNIC | Hard to decipher, as some ancient inscriptions |
| SHELFLIFE | Decipher flesh file to reveal how long something remains usable (5,4) |
| CRACKACODE | Give in to pressure from American with key to decipher (5,1,4) |
| SPEAKNOEVIL | Leaves pinko to decipher monkey's message (5,2,4) |
| GENECHIP | DNA probe used to decipher eg hen pic (4,4) |
| WHODARESWINS | I'd show answer to decipher motto (3,5,4) |
| TRANSLATE | Decipher foreign instructions to cook lean tarts (9) |
