| GETTING | & 11Ac. How the miner is applying himself to the job! (7,4,2,2) |
| DOWNTOIT | How the miner is applying himself to the job! (7,4,2,2) |
| WORKAHOLIC | To toil while on a vacation, even briefly, is extremely individualistic, but one is married to the job! |
| BOBBYAARON | 1950s-'60s singer trying to get himself to the front of the alphabet? |
| KNUCKLEDOWN | Don knew luck - but only after applying himself seriously to the task! (7,4) |
| ANAGRAM | The miner is one of their men |
| INTERIM | Meantime the miner is involved with it (7) |
| OVERFEEDING | This is applying too much fertiliser to plants (11) |
| GATES | Massachusetts is applying strict consumer regulations to these |
| AMERICANINDIANS | Canadian miner is shifting old people across the border (8,7) |
| COLLIE | The dog is a little too small for the miner (6) |
| REMINISCE | Before church, miner is prepared to talk over old times (9) |
| REGIMENT | This miner is seen to get with a lot of soldiers (8) |
| CANYON | Where the cavern was in which dwelt, excavating for a mine, the miner, forty-niner, and his daughter |
| RAINFOREST | Rule Twiggy the miner, they say - for the tropical flora! (10) |
| ACHY | The miner left the machinery as was quite sore (4) |
| SHAFT | Wherein the miner going down has to change feet? (5) |
| INFORMER | ' Because the miner's trapped after the collapse' he squeals (8) |
| CLAIM | Assert it's the miner's right to a piece of land (5) |
| TASK | End of engagement: pop the question - just the job! (4) |