| POORLAW | Early legislation welfare (4,3) |
| ERLANDER | Scandinavian politician, prime minister of his country for 23 years, overseeing much social welfare legislation (8) |
| SUCCESS | Welfare |
| SELFISH | Concerned only with one's personal welfare (7) |
| BENEFIT | Welfare payment's been adjusted to suit (7) |
| DAYCARE | Local authority welfare services (3,4) |
| SOCIALS | Parties want state welfare cut in half |
| ALMONER | Hospital welfare official (7) |
| ADVERSE | Contrary to your interests or welfare (7) |
| DIAGRAM | Spoil good welfare, having reversed plan |
| CHARITY | Welfare (7) |
| PROBONO | Take on work in tavern, untwisting coil for general welfare (3,4,7) |
| RESTFUL | A relaxing result obtainable round the welfare centre (7) |
| ORIGAMI | When welfare cheque turns up, friend from France does paper-modelling (7) |
| FAREAST | Welfare as theoretically seen in China, for example (3,4) |
| CADBURY | Chocolatier and animal welfare pioneer who established the garden village Bournville for his workers and what is now a global confectionery brand (7) |
| SWEETFA | Fiddled welfare state? Alert goes out over nothing at all (5,2) |
| EXACTLY | "Man becomes great _ in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men": Mahatma Gandhi (7) |
| POOR | ___ Laws, welfare system in place until the early-20th century (4) |
| CHISHOLM | Caroline -, welfare worker and philanthropist of early colonial Australia, depicted on the former five-dollar banknote (8) |
