| MARIETUSSAUD | Which famous modeller took death masks from heads severed by the guillotine? (5,7) |
| TUSSAUD | Who (Marie ___) made wax models of heads severed by the guillotine? (7) |
| EJECT | Remove masks from mess jacket, crumple and throw out (5) |
| THIEF | An outlaw who would steal mask from makeshift construction (5) |
| TROWEL | Brickie's tool and mask from metalworks (6) |
| MADAMEDEFARGE | In 6 down she sat by the guillotine and knitted though she was notably absent when Sidney Carton (the Ronald Colman role) went to his death (6,7) |
| DECAPITATION | Captain to die by order - on the guillotine? |
| LONGSENTENCE | What those going to the guillotine didn't get presumably in life? (4,8) |
| KEEPONESHEAD | Stay calm to avoid the guillotine (4,4,4) |
| HEADON | Confronting each other before going to the guillotine? |
| KNITTED | Came together and kept busy at the guillotine? |
| UPPERCUT | Part of a shoe severed by a boxing blow (8) |
| SEEYOU | Goodbye from heads of Christian Union on the phone |
| TOGS | Clothes from heads of the old German states (4) |
| ASCENDED | A perfume that's endless from heads of decorative, elegant damask rose (8) |
| LIVEANDLETDIE | Bond offering from heads of legal industry needed vital changes (4,3,3,3) |
| TUMBREL | Open cart which took the condemned to the guillotine (7) |
| BEWARE | Take care - stinger has been severed by struggle (6) |
| HARPO | Silent star's leg severed by weapon |
| AWDRY | Clergyman and keen modeller whose interest in trains inspired him to pen the Railway Series of books (5) |
