| LACERATES | Less spiritual altarpieces mutilated, leading to tears |
| LACERATIONS | Add alcohol to food portions, leading to tears |
| ASTER | Bloomer leading to tears? (5) |
| CROCODILE | Row leading to tears? (9) |
| EFFERENT | Carrying out motion of iron up and down, leading to tear (8) |
| TIEPOLO | Draw game? He painted frescoes and altarpieces (7) |
| LAICAL | Secular figures in formulaic altarpieces |
| DEALT | Meted out beside altarpieces (5) |
| CRANACH | Lucas ____ The Elder, German artist born in 1472 noted for his altarpieces and court portraits (7) |
| DIPTYCHS | Paintings, often altarpieces, on two hinged wooden panels that can close like a book (8) |
| STIMULATE | Induce badly mutilated son to take over from daughter (9) |
| HECATOMB | Large number of victims, each appearing mutilated to doctor (8) |
| PARADISE | Soldier dies, mutilated, and is carried up to here? |
| PROCRUSTES | In Greek legend, which robber mutilated his victims to make them exactly fit his bed? (10) |
| MANGLED | Mutilated - pressed clothes through a machine (7) |
| MASSACRE | Mutilated carcases, with initial number up 900, reveal the slaughter (8) |
| NEHRU | Statesman decapitated and mutilated Ben Hur |
| NECROMANCER | Church probes Cranmer on mutilated magician |
| YESTERYEAR | In past for sure betrayer mutilated after beheading |
| BUTCHER | Killer mutilated headless Schubert |
