| DISSIPATE | To scatter or break up |
| DISBAND | Scatter or break up a group or activity |
| RESPERSE | Now obsolete term for to scatter or sprinkle (8) |
| DISSOLVE | Break down or break up? (8) |
| RESOLVE | About to settle or break up? (7) |
| HOE | Tool used to remove weeds or break up soil |
| MAESTRO | Super conductor has to let off steam or break up (7) |
| EXPANSE | Stretch or break up in river (7) |
| DISPERSE | Scatter or to get rid of (8) |
| THEYEARDOT | Those people date or break up as long ago as anyone can remember (3,4,3) |
| DIFFERRE | To spread abroad, scatter or disperse, eg igni flammata ... possint ... late ____ favillam, DRN 2.673-6 |
| SPREADER | A broadcaster, butter/palette knife, gossip-monger, muck-raker, spatula, trowel, virus carrier or other person or thing that applies, disseminates, publicises, scatters or transmits (8) |
| STREW | Scatter or start trotting in various directions (5) |
| SPRINKLE | Scatter or spray |
| RUG | Word after scatter or throw |
| TED | To scatter hay or grass to dry |
| ANDROMEDOTOXIN | With capital to scatter, bull elected for something to keep BP low |
| LITTER | To scatter rubbish, especially in public places, is to do what (6) |
| EXPEL | Figure to scatter peel around or throw it out anyway (5) |
| BOTHERS | Takes the trouble to chop herbs to scatter round (7) |