| WARDROOM | Make mess, having died in control centre |
| POWDER | Died in control of explosive mixture (6) |
| STEVEDORE | Worker in dock, first wife having died in warehouse |
| PALINDROME | One’s deified, having died in China in ancient city |
| ODDS | Chances of having died in overdoses (4) |
| BEDHEAD | Nasty shock having died in guillotine (7) |
| LODGE | Beaver found here, having died in a box |
| STILLBORN | Having died in the womb |
| EDGES | Creeps, say, having died in El Salvador |
| LORDS | Primate disposing of one having died in ground (5) |
| SHAH | Ruler in a mess having succeeded much earlier |
| EATING | Get in a mess having a meal |
| DORMICE | Rodents make mess originally in cereal |
| IMPISHNESS | Mischievous tendency that could make mess in ship |
| APPESTAT | Theoretical control centre in the brain, possibly in the hypothalamus, that regulates feelings of hunger and satiety (8) |
| BRAIN | Wee Robert worked in the control centre (5) |
| MAKEAFASTBUCK | Earn money quickly in mess, having cooked a fab steak (4,1,4,4) |
| CHEERFUL | Happy with free lunch in a mess, having no money essentially (8) |
| TANGOED | In a mess, having nothing for starter for lunch, so stepped out |
| LIMBICSYSTEM | Control centre's branch connected to awful city mess (6,6) |
