| UNION | Confederacy or those who opposed it? (5) |
| PALEFACES | Those who opposed Indians putting up tearoom surrounded by fencing |
| ALLIED | United in a confederacy or league (6) |
| USERS | Employers or those who avail, in a way ? (5) |
| BARDS | Word originally for Celtic poets, musicians and singers that came to mean poets generally or those who have won at an eisteddfod (5) |
| NAFTA | Perot opposed it during his '92 campaign |
| HBOMB | Oppenheimer opposed it |
| ICENI | Protestants in island province who opposed influence of Rome (5) |
| GHAZI | Veteran Muslim warrior who opposed non-believers (5) |
| SLOVO | Joe, South African politician who opposed the apartheid system (5) |
| PEROT | Candidate who opposed NAFTA |
| HANNO | Carthaginian statesman who opposed war with Rome |
| HENRI | Bourassa who opposed conscription during World War I |
| INERT | Like one who's opposed to a motion? |
| NESTS | Structures such as formicaria, dreys, vespiaries, wurleys or those lined with feathers, moss, wool, cobwebs, thistledown or lichen for birds' sittings or clutches of eggs (5) |
| BACKS | Dorsal bodily areas, such as those of humans said to be "up" when annoyed or those of cats that arch when angry or threatened (5) |
| THECHARGERS | Pro team, or those who paid those final food tallies? |
| BOOKSELLERS | ...or those who retail it (11) |
| SEEDS | Embryonic plants such as those used in Gregor Mendel's experiments that formed the basis of modern genetics or those preserved at Wakehurst Place (5) |
| GIFTS | From Old English for "payments for a wife, dowries" or "weddings", a word for presents, such as the offerings of the Magi or those placed in stockings at Christmas (5) |
