| REGULATE | Control or adjust as required (8) |
| RESTRAIN | Keep under control or in check (8) |
| MONOPOLY | Exclusive control or possession of something (8) |
| MASTERED | Got control or dominated (8) |
| MANAGING | Having administrative control or authority (8) |
| DIRECTOR | Heard that bored member had to take control, or had finished (8) |
| DOMINATE | To control or have power over |
| INCHARGE | Having control or authority (2,6) |
| ALLNIGHTER | Shift, perhaps, or adjust clothes line round the corner |
| ADAPT | Modify or adjust (5) |
| SHIMS | What are thin packing strips used to space or adjust machinery parts? (5) |
| SWAY | A rhythmical motion from side to side, to and fro or back and forth; a leaning movement; rule, control or influence; or, a switch for thatching (4) |
| CORKSCREWS | Twists enabling helixophiles or oenophiles to open up or perhaps spiral out of control; or, curls (10) |
| APRONSTRING | Symbol of control or influence, as by a parent |
| FREAK | Lose control ... or what might follow "control" |
| RESTRAINT | The ability to control or moderate one's impulses or passions (9) |
| INFERNO | Alluding to Dante's description of a journey through hell, a word for perdition; a fire raging out of control; or, any hellish place of pain or turmoil (7) |
| ZAPPER | A bug vaporiser, microwave oven, television remote control or other thing that blasts, kills, nukes or shoots (6) |
| BAFFLES | Flat plates which control or direct the flow of liquid, gas, or sound waves (7) |
| SELF | Word with control or discipline |
