### Clue: At home getting a couple of texts after a former president turned up dead (9)
### Answer: INANIMATE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: dead
 IN(a home/not out and about) **plus**(getting) { **1st 2 letters of**(couple of) "texts" **placed below**(after, in a down clue) [ A + **reversal of**(… turned) AMIN(Idi, former president and dictator of Uganda) ] }.