| POSTMORTEM | Investigation after death or game (4,6) |
| AFTERLIFE | Life after death or a later time in a person's lifetime (9) |
| CROSSBONES | A figure of two intersecting femurs, combined with a skull as a symbol of danger, death or piracy on a Jolly Roger, memento mori or poison bottle (10) |
| PLAYPOSSUM | Fake death or sleep |
| DEATHKNELL | Something that heralds a death or destruction (5,5) |
| SAGEGROUSE | Herb going with beef or game bird |
| CONFIDENCE | Kind of man or game |
| SPATCHCOCK | Chicken or game bird split open and grilled (10) |
| BACKGAMMON | Rump, ham or game (10) |
| PAPERCHASE | Cross-country race or game also known as hare and hounds (5,5) |
| BREADSAUCE | Milk thickened with crumbs as a traditional accompaniment to poultry or game (5,5) |
| RESEARCH | Investigation after soldiers brand companion (8) |
| SLIPCASE | Investigation after error where books are kept (8) |
| SHEARING | Work on a farm investigation after closing of abattoirs (8) |
| LATEST | Opening of Leveson investigation after a hot bit of news (6) |
| CURTAINS | Word for drapes or portieres; or, alluding to the closing or falling of these, the end, death or ruin (8) |
| NECROSIS | Death or decay of part of an organ or tissue due to disease or injury (8) |
| IDO | Words after, "Til death or divorce do us part" |
| ATTAINDER | Formerly, the extinction of a person's civil rights resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry on conviction for treason or felony |
| BLACKSPOT | A rose gardener's bane of leaf blight; a road where danger lurks; or, in Treasure Island, a pirate's mark of condemnation, death or doom (5,4) |
