| EATEN | It's defeated, beheaded and then consumed (5) |
| BREADANDBUTTER | Routine to study and speak when beheaded, so to speak (5-3-6) |
| PRIED | Snooped and saw spider beheaded and mangled (5) |
| UNTIE | Relative gets beheaded and thus finds release (5) |
| COMPASSIONATE | Kind of pacifist, moderate at first, then consumed with rage |
| MEDIATE | Doctor swallowed tablet first, then consumed umpire (7) |
| PANATELLA | Smoke pot then consumed large lasagna after vacation (9) |
| EMANATE | Garbled "amen" then consumed stem (7) |
| SATANIC | Editor's so consumed by article about Dickens (7) |
| BITONTHESIDE | Having no front teeth, so consumed crumpet (3,2,3,4) |
| EVERYMAN | Average Joe so consumed by celebrity making a comeback |
| GREY | Lady Jane -; depicted in a play by Nicholas Rowe and a painting by Paul Delaroche, a queen for nine days before she was beheaded and replaced with Mary Tudor (4) |
| OUSTED | Fought the old way, beheaded and supplanted (6) |
| YESTERYEAR | In the past certainly betrayer was beheaded and chopped up |
| EXACTLY | Stoat beheaded and cut up? Quite |
| DETAINEE | Prisoner French marshal beheaded and cast in river |
| ORACULAR | Mysterious vampire has been beheaded and buried by soldiers |
| OYSTER | Secretive person beheaded and buried in mystery? |
| RELICS | The remains of the clerics, beheaded and mutilated (6) |
| THETERROR | When thousands beheaded - and character abroad the opposite, by mistake |
