| FATWA | Overweight women given a death sentence (5) |
| SLIGO | Heartless young women given a lift round town (5) |
| WEARY | Women given turbulent year are tired (5) |
| WEDGE | Women given advantage in triangular piece (5) |
| MAYQUEEN | Royalty for a month is in folklore a death sentence (3,5) |
| BLACKCAP | Headgear formerly worn by a judge when pronouncing a death sentence (5,3) |
| EXECUTION | The carrying out of a death sentence (9) |
| REPRIEVED | Postponed a death sentence (9) |
| EXECUTIONER | One who carries out a death sentence |
| MAO | Major communist leader whose widow received a death sentence, commuted to life imprisonment (3) |
| IFLOOKSCOULD | Conditional death sentence, as from glancing shots? (2,5,5,4) |
| KILL | Conditional death sentence, as from glancing shots? (2,5,5,4) |
| WIPE | Group of women given gym to mop (4) |
| HELLCATS | Fierce women given lines in explosive musical |
| DIVI | Two women given reduced share of profits |
| SLATTERNS | Slovenly women given last, stern shake-up (9) |
| WHIP | Women given fashionable flavoured dessert (4) |
| FAMOUSLASTWORDS | Death sentence widely publicised? (6,4,5) |
| FLETCHER | Loud luster after women given time inside - ie one doing porridge (8) |
| STRINGUP | Carry out death sentence on train going to London? |
