| ELECTROCUTION | Method of killing - out to encircle (anag) (13) |
| MODUSOPERANDI | Method of killing husband? Had poisoned rum slyly (5,8) |
| EUTHANASIA | Painless method of killing |
| SHEHITA | That woman disrupted a method of killing animals |
| EXTERMINATION | Process of killing vermin, say (13) |
| CARTRIDGEBELT | Way to encircle soldiers? (9,4) |
| SLESSOR | Mary ___, Scottish missionary to Nigeria, who gained the respect of the local people and helped to stop the practice of killing twins (7) |
| RINGER | Australian word for the fastest sheepshearer in an shed, as opposed to a "snagger"; a game of marbles; a campanologist; or, a horseshoe/quoit thrown so as to encircle a peg (6) |
| BODYCHECK | Block evidence of killing, meeting threat of capture |
| MANSLAUGHTER | Crime of killing, short of murder |
| SPY | Eve of Killing Eve or Jack of Jack Ryan |
| STRONGHOLD | Strain hard to encircle outside of tower (historic fortress) |
| ELECTRONIC | Sort of mail to encircle letters (10) |
| CINGERE | Gen. to encircle, metaph. to crown or garland (3rd conj.) |
| COPSE | Police start to encircle group of trees |
| PILOT | Plan to encircle one member of a squadron (5) |
| PASTEUR | French scientist whose name was given to the process of killing microorganisms in milk, Louis ... |
| SEINE | Vertically-hanging net, with or without a bottom 'drawstring', used by fishermen to encircle schools of fish |
| QUOITS | Stones covering dolmens; or, rings thrown to encircle upright hobs, pegs or pins in a game of the same name (6) |
| DITH | Photographer of "Killing Fields" fame, ___ Pran |
