| ESNE | A domestic slave in Old English times (4) |
| THANE | King's companion in Old English times (5) |
| OXALATES | Salts reprinted old English Times Atlas (8) |
| FINN | He fled down the Mississippi with a runaway slave, in fiction |
| OLAN | Slave in "The Good Earth" |
| EDGEWAYS | From the side of women, say raised in English times (8) |
| EXOTIC | Colourful English Times involved in hearing |
| ANDROCLES | Slave in a story by Aulus Gellius whose life was spared by a lion from whose paw he had once removed a thorn (9) |
| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| HELOT | A slave in ancient Greece was in the lotus position (5) |
| CURRENS | Servus ____, a slave in a hurry, on the run, stock comedy character |
| EXILE | English Times has leaderless column with a sentence that's obviously political (5) |
| SWEETTOOTH | In truth, we English time after time will display a penchant for the final course (5,5) |
| EXPENSIVE | English "Times" 71p? Oddly overpriced (9) |
| EXPOSES | Reveals attitudes struck by English Times (7) |
| EXPAT | One living abroad wants English Times? Just so! |
| EXACT | Precise English - Times to take action |
| KLEENEX | Swiss-German painter finally taken with English Times, an absorbing paper (7) |
| MOTET | French word, English time for a musical work (5) |
| BARITONE | Before ending in servitude, no slave in anthem has inspired a singer (8) |
