| NEEDLEANDTHREAD | Need lean characters before death loses vowels. Read afterwards about sewing set (6,3,6) |
| THEGARDENOFEDEN | Occupied the characters before The Fall and The Paradise (3,6,2,4) |
| ESCAMILLO | Key characters before a factory, then love for noted toreador |
| COLA | Odd, cool, lean characters have soft drink (4) |
| ENLARGE | [111] Base lean characters grow (7) |
| BLATHERER | Gasbag beginning to babble afterwards, about female |
| LAUGHTER | Chuckles afterwards about awkward hug (8) |
| QUILTCOMPLEX | Obsession about sewing things all wrong, maybe? |
| PINSANDNEEDLES | Funny feeling about sewing equipment (4,3,7) |
| CHINWAG | Chat about sewing machines nemesis pinched |
| THREATEN | Use menaces afterwards about odd rate (8) |
| BEFRIEND | Before death characters reconvened in brief support |
| FATALITY | Italy about to blubber before death (8) |
| TOBITS | Finally, just before death, notices so much (2,4) |
| EPITAPH | Inscription around grave -- a record before death finally (7) |
| ANTEMORTEM | A dreadful torment has this person spinning before death (10) |
| IMPEND | Before death devil may be seen to be around the corner |
| FRIGHTENED | Fine immediately before death, swallowing drug, having bad nerves |
| NERVEEND | One can feel pain in guts before death (5,3) |
| LIFEEXPECTANCY | Period you can hope to exist for before death (4,10) |
