| PAROXYSM | Rosa wanders, carrying a couple of axes, in afternoon, resulting in seizure (8) |
| EPILEPSY | Disorder resulting in seizures |
| ASPHYXIA | Result of drowning, perhaps, a damaged ship carrying couple of axes before commencement of accident (8) |
| TAXYEAR | I start in spring time taking a couple of axes to part of wheat |
| COMINGUP | Rising Chinese family involved in seizure of power (6,2) |
| DISTRAIT | Absent-minded lawman finally lost in seizure of chattels |
| APOPLEXY | Love splitting tree with axes in fury (8) |
| PEMBROKE | Finally free in afternoon, what gamblers go for in Welsh town |
| PHANTASM | Has tan spoiled in afternoon shadow? (8) |
| ATTENDEE | Person turning up curtains for student in PM once (8) |
| CANAAN | Container carrying a couple of articles to a pilgrim spot (6) |
| DISRAELI | Arid isle boiling in PM (8) |
| SHABBY | Run-down carriage carrying a couple of bishops (6) |
| FOOTBALLER | Soccer player's running barefoot carrying a couple of students (10) |
| GULLY | Fellow carrying a couple of students from ditch (5) |
| COVERUP | Conceal the upcoming role of a minister in seizure of power (5,2) |
| GRAPH | A diagram showing the relation between variable quantities, typically of two variables, each measured along one of a pair of axes at right angles (5) |
| CORRUPT | Dishonest bishop engaged in seizure of power, source of trouble (7) |
| NOFLYZONE | Note old fellow, solitary, carrying axes in exclusive area (2-3,4) |
| XANDY | Axes in a geometry class |