| BEVERIDGEREPORT | Drink that led to the welfare state? |
| CAREFREE | Happy-go-lucky benefit of the welfare state? (8) |
| COUNCILHOUSING | Part of the welfare state in the U.K. |
| REST | Relax - this is only part of the Welfare State (4) |
| FLEE | In the welfare state it returned by air? (4) |
| ARES | God's part within the welfare state (4) |
| LAWS | They anticipated the welfare state's shameful acts (4,4) |
| POOR | They anticipated the welfare state's shameful acts (4,4) |
| PURSER | Ship's officer attending to the welfare of passengers (6) |
| UNICEF | Which UN agency is devoted to the welfare of children? (6) |
| ALTRUIST | One who is devoted to the welfare of others (8) |
| KENNELCLUB | Body dedicated to the welfare of dogs founded in 1873 |
| SWEETFA | Fiddled welfare state? Alert goes out over nothing at all (5,2) |
| NEED | Welfare state? |
| BIGBANG | According to cosmological theories the event/explosion that led to the formation of the universe (3,4) |
| EDSA | The avenue in Manila (Philippines) which made concrete before the world the Filipinos' people power that led to the fall of Marcos from power |
| DUMBARTONOAKS | Historic estate in Washington, DC that was the scene of conferences in 1944 that led to the creation of the United Nations (9,4) |
| DUMBARTON | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations (9) |
| OAKS | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations (4) |
| NINETY | 19__, year of the terrible aeroplane crash that led to the village of Beckindale changing its name to Emmerdale (6-5) |
