| NECESSITY | One beheaded, less beheaded in the city requirement (9) |
| NOBLENESS | Aristocrat, one beheaded in custody of subordinate with dignity (9) |
| LEVIATHAN | Two biblical characters, second one beheaded sea monster (9) |
| PICTORIAL | Queen beheaded in place represented graphically (9) |
| COURTROOM | Woo prospective partner beheaded in scene of TV drama (9) |
| HOMICIDAL | Bloodthirsty Joker beheaded in concealed, uninhabited atoll (9) |
| RESENTFUL | Angry men beheaded in tranquil surroundings (9) |
| ILISSUS | The writer loses first wife, beheaded in the river (7) |
| CECELIA | Patron saint of musicians, supposedly beheaded in the second or third century (7) |
| NIGHT | Sir has been beheaded in the dark (5) |
| EAST | A beast beheaded in the Orient (4) |
| NICENE | It is pleasant to have one beheaded, according to the Creed (6) |
| NEED | Have to have one beheaded and end disembowelled (4) |
| ANNEBOLEYN | Awful baloney about one beheaded knight and queen (4,6) |
| ROOST | Royal shot in the arm, beheaded in bed (5) |
| RALEIGH | Beheaded in 1618 for failing to find gold in the New World, Sir Walter ... |
| SIMON | And 30ac Scot who was the last man publicly beheaded in Britain, in 1747 (5,6) |
| LAUSANNE | Swiss city girl found beheaded in country road |
| MANDALAY | Song by woman beheaded in Asian city |
| HOWARD | Catherine,the fifth wife of Henry VIII, beheaded in 1542 (6) |
