| STRIKEABARGAIN | Agree terms when local cuts make further impact |
| NICKS | Cuts make more than one cooler (5) |
| ECONOMISE | Establish cuts make noise come out (9) |
| QUIT | Leave on equal terms when there is no point |
| UTTER | Put terms when about to speak (5) |
| GETTINGONABIT | On fairly friendly terms when pretty old? (7,2,1,3) |
| GREETER | One might admit you agree terms, to an extent (7) |
| REACT | True paucity with supplies regularly cut - make a response? |
| REPRODUCES | Expert, restrained by cuts, makes again |
| CALCUTTA | Local cut taxes, partly, in Asian city |
| ATTEN | When local news might air |
| INN | I like Poles when local (3) |
| HOMEGAME | Event when local fans come out |
| GALVANISED | Spurred into action when local girl disappeared after leaving hospital |
| DISSECTS | It cuts them when locals scorn religious groups |
| OPENINGTIME | Starting to read US magazine when locals start business |
| NUTS | Recalled shock, perhaps, when locals called them crazy |
| DEADENDS | Dad needs representation when they make further progress impossible (4,4) |
| ETNA | Mount that's a poker term when read backward |
| DUEDATE | End of term, when book's to be returned? (3,4) |
