| MOTOROIL | Driver second if not invested in hard work (5,3) |
| LANTERN | EU not invested in neural net that might produce illumination (7) |
| FOSSILS | Remains petrified, every second if boss is aimless? (7) |
| STEAM | Old engine-driver, second to join crew |
| INTENSE | Concentrated? Within ten seconds, if reduced (7) |
| SIXMOREWEEKS | February 2nd: If the little critter sees his shadow on Groundhog Day, that means there will be how m |
| EXERTION | Oxen tire out in hard work |
| TREFOILS | Things such as clover have game official in hard work situations (8) |
| TREFOIL | Umpire buried in hard work? No, in clover (7) |
| INDUS | River Test eradicated in hard work |
| SWEETMEAT | Parisian and me engaged in hard work to produce confection (9) |
| RISIBLE | Ludicrous nark turning prelate in: hard work to get free |
| FINNEGANSWAKE | Fan's weakening, when involved in hard work! |
| SONGCRAFT | Soprano, working with contralto, engaged in hard work and lyrical expertise |
| FLAG | Droop when left in hard work |
| TURMOIL | Spirit may be shown in hard work, causing great upset (7) |
| TOPSOIL | Surface operations involved in hard work (7) |
| HUSHHUSH | American comes in hard, hard, repeatedly on the quiet (4-4) |
| TIDEOVER | Daughter in bind unused to help in hard times |
| SWANLAKE | Russian notes endless desire to take litre in hard liquor (4,4) |
