| PURDAH | In which women be kept suitably hard up? (6) |
| WRETCH | Swine that could make women be sick? (6) |
| MENINBACK | Film in which women take the lead? |
| STEM | Subjects in which women have traditionally been underrepresented, for short |
| CROQUET | A one-off Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris games, credited with being the first event in which women participated (7) |
| MARCH | Surname of the Alcott characters at the starred answers' starts, or 2020 month in which women made all the Universal Crosswords |
| GYMNASTICS | Olympic sport in which women have four events and men have six (10) |
| THERAINBOW | 1915 D H Lawrence novel to which Women in Love is a sequel (3,7) |
| PLAYA | Some hard-up layabout in bed in Spain |
| BROKERS | Negotiators would be hard up after losing hollow riches (7) |
| NEHRU | Statesman in need, hard up now and then |
| INHERIT | Be left at home, weary and hard up |
| SKINT | In a way, relatives are hard up (5) |
| HUTS | Shacks in back street taken by hard up initially (4) |
| DUPED | Took in some hard-up editors (5) |
| DASH | Very little in cupboard as hard-up |
| BEGGINGLETTER | Might it be sent by hard-up landlord? (7,6) |
| SHORTLEG | In cricket, a fielder or a hard-up supporter (5,3) |
| HOSTEL | Accommodation found in chalet, so hard up |
| NEEDY | Tyneside press chief unknown to be hard up (5) |
