| TOPDOWN | Controlled from above, party's under pressure in place like Harrogate |
| SPATOWN | Quarrel can get personal in place like Harrogate (3,4) |
| OPERATIONSROOM | Morose oration prepared about pressure in place from which war effort is directed (10,4) |
| EMBED | Put in place like a war correspondent |
| REVS | Races in place like an engine |
| ROOTED | Firmly in place, like a tree |
| SET | Put in place, like a stone |
| SPLASHDOWN | A drop in the ocean is to hit Democrat under pressure in broadcast |
| STANZA | Refrain from hiding in places like Turkmenistan, Zanzibar |
| LAY | Put in place, like bricks |
| BONEYARD | Poet's written about single year in place like that inspiring Gray's "Elegy" (8) |
| RUPERTSLAND | Vast territory the hudson's bay company controlled from 1670 to 1870: 2 wds. |
| NERVECENTRE | Gall and heart operations are controlled from here |
| SIGNAL | It's transmitted and may be controlled from the box (6) |
| ARTICHOKES | Amidst the plot, The Globe's crafty type from institute folds under pressure, in the sporting sense (10) |
| DIECAST | Shaped under pressure in a mould (3-4) |
| SPHERE | Field hospital under pressure in dry setting (6) |
| PRELIM | Runner-up put under pressure in early round of competition |
| SAMPLE | Queen's "Under Pressure" in "Ice Ice Baby," e.g. |
| PUTTER | Speak, under pressure, in golf club |
