| AWETO | Point in a circle, dispatching The Last of Us's cordyceps victim |
| CENTRE | Liqueur, ganache, praline or caramel filling in a chocolate; a player position in netball; or, the point in a circle equidistant from every point of its circumference (6) |
| ABIDE | Tolerate a US president dispatching the last (5) |
| ATLANTA | The capital of US's Georgia (7) |
| IMMUNE | Like Ellie, to the cordyceps infection, in "The Last of Us" |
| GAFFER | One dispatching the big fish is the boss (6) |
| HONESTY | Best policy, perhaps, dispatching the nosy |
| FUNGUS | What Cordyceps is a genus of |
| FUNGI | Yeast, morel, cordyceps, etc. |
| LETDIE | Film released 50 years ago, culminating in James Bond dispatching a villainous henchman out of a train window (4, 3, 3, 3) |
| PLAVIX | "... With one swing they struck the evil one right in the ___! (dispatching him instantly)..." |
| WORSHIPPER | Bicker over one dispatching a member of the flock (10) |
| STRINE | Celebrity dispatching article in English - a variant of it |
| ATRIUM | A major win, dispatching last couple in open court |
| PRIESTS | Ordained ministers; or, alluding to their function in administering the last rites, anglers' bats for quickly dispatching or stunning fish (7) |
| ATRIA | A hassle dispatching large containers of claret (5) |
| OENOPHILE | Pigeonhole drunk dispatching gallons as lover of the bottle |
| NAVE | Scoundrel dispatching king in body of church |
| CENTURY | This is the 21st horseman, you could say, dispatching a Yankee |
| GROUNDSQUIRREL | Justification by one in dispute dispatching a rodent (6,8) |
