| STINGINTHETAIL | Unexpected ending for a scorpion? (5,2,3,4) |
| TWIST | Unexpected ending for Dickens hero (5) |
| VENOM | Word, related to "drug, love potion, poison, sexual love", for a scorpion, snake or spider's zootoxin, synonymous with spite or virus (5) |
| ARACHNIDAN | Disorder in a handcar - a scorpion? |
| EGG | "Or if he shall ask an ___, will he offer him a scorpion?" |
| TAIL | Place for a scorpion's stinger |
| UNTWIST | Straighten out a foreign scene with an unexpected ending (7) |
| MANTICORE | Mythical beast comprising a man, a lion and a scorpion (9) |
| ARACHNID | Children, note, cornered by a sudden attack — scorpion? |
| IRONICTALE | *Account that might have an unexpected ending |
| MEZCAL | Drink sometimes bottled with a worm or a scorpion |
| SCOURGE | A plague of scorpions? (7) |
| ANYOLDIRON | Unexpected ending in 'Londonderry Air', London music hall song (3,3,4) |
| IRONIC | Like some unexpected endings |
| MATTHANCOCK | I'm A Celebrity... jungle inmate stung by a scorpion (4,7) |
| TURNTAIL | A scorpion may do so and still be offensive (4,4) |
| STUNG | Pricked by a scorpion (5) |
| TABASCO | Stab a scorpion that swallowed spicy sauce (7) |
| TELSON | The poisonous tip of a scorpion tail |
| VENOMOUS | Like a scorpion |
