| CAPUT | Initial cutting replacing tip, to dead-head (5) |
| ASTER | Flower quicker to dead-head? |
| UNPOETIC | Replacing tip on cue that's dull |
| TETANISED | Induced seizure: offensive plant to dead head (9) |
| DATER | Check dead head on rubber tree (5) |
| PAVED | With flags laid down for quiet prayer to dead (5) |
| ADIEU | Goodbye from a dead head - that's you! |
| SPRUE | Dead-head plant after early signs of spring |
| QUICK | Word for alert, alive or animated, in contrast to dead or inanimate, originally, now fast, speedy or swift (5) |
| LATIN | Tail off on way to dead language |
| STINE | "Welcome to Dead House" author |
| BITESTHEDUST | Comes to nothing for most of them after getting mosquito stings on what amounts to dead skin (5,3,4) |
| DANDRUFF | Dead head and fancy collar to cover a problem with the scalp (8) |
| DEFT | Proficient dead head finally left |
| RIDE | Rise early dead head, and travel by bike |
| DUE | A dead head, at the end of the queue, is in arrears |
| STUPID | Sit up gingerly with frigid behind and with a dead head (6) |
| EMPTIES | At last the politicians accept obligation to dead soldiers (7) |
| DEMOCRATS | Politicians find rising star come to dead end (9) |
| BOWTIE | Succumb to dead heat in formal wear (3,3) |
