| TYRANNY | Left in ruin at end of day, embraced by elderly relative enjoying reign of terror (6,1,7) |
| RULINGA | Left in ruin at end of day, embraced by elderly relative enjoying reign of terror (6,1,7) |
| ARTHURDENT | Day embraced by enthusiastic hitchhiker in a novel way? (6,4) |
| GRAMMARIAN | Fowler, possibly, married girl kept by elderly relative |
| MOLAR | Grinder operator left in ruin (5) |
| NOYADE | Execution by drowning, as practised during the Reign of Terror at Nantes in France from 1793-94 (6) |
| DANTON | A major figure in the French Revolution, whose moderate attitude in the Reign of Terror led to his own public execution (6) |
| TUSSAUD | Marie -; wax sculptress forced to make death masks of guillotine victims during the reign of terror |
| ROBESPIERRE | The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution effectively ended with the execution of this prominent leader (11) |
| ENCHILADA | Mexican food left in ruins of hacienda (9) |
| COLDSORES | Infection caught by elderly on rise reportedly by touching sulphur (4,5) |
| NEUTRINOS | Particles of stone ruin at sea (9) |
| LODGE | Live in an old ruin at some stage (5) |
| YUCATAN | Peninsula in Mexico that contains the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza (7) |
| ROT | Origins of Reign of Terror? Nonsense! |
| DOMITIAN | Roman emperor who instigated a reign of terror in 93 AD |
| ERROR | Mistake made in the reign of terror (5) |
| NOYADES | Drownings during the Reign of Terror at Nantes |
| NOTIMETOSPARE | Very busy explaining what the Reign of Terror was (2,4,2,5) |
| HOLIDAYMAKER | Big blow about one being detained by elderly person in resort |
