| LASTPOST | What we hear when the fencing's ended and someone's been killed (4,4) |
| ASHOTINTHEDARK | Guess this may mean someone's been killed at midnight? |
| CREAK | What we hear when the cake mixture is about right |
| CREAM | What we hear when the cake mixture is about right (5) |
| DEADHEAT | Level at the finish, having been killed by high temperature (4,4) |
| RIPCORDS | Tear one's trousers, we hear, when pulling on essential pieces of parachute (8) |
| WEEKDAYS | Feeble stupor, so we hear, when most people work (8) |
| MARTYRED | Nip back to take the wheel and be killed for the cause (8) |
| BULLETIN | News that someone's been shot? (8) |
| LOWTIDE | Sound of cattle tethered, we hear, when the sea turns (3,4) |
| RAILINGS | Fencing's poor following river south (8) |
| OWNLABEL | E.g. Iceland's brand new stuffing bird, the first to be killed? |
| OVERTIME | Labour too long in office and someone must pay for it? (8) |
| FANDANGO | Dance enthusiast and someone good at combative sports suit each other (8) |
| KEDGEREE | Awful reek envelops border and someone made a meal of it (8) |
| ALSATIAN | Large dog and someone from northern France (8) |
| SARCHASM | Gap between a witticism and someone who doesn't get it? |
| ALGERIAN | Somewhat comical - Geri and someone from North Africa (8) |
| OBEDIENT | Does as he is told, gets an honour but will be killed by the Northern Territory (8) |
| HITLISTS | People may be killed on these buffet tables |
