| STRIKEHOME | Get a blow well in, using domestic industrial action? (6,4) |
| OVERSPEND | Blow well past one's budget |
| WORKTORULE | Try hard to get power by taking industrial action? (4,2,4) |
| MAKESITBIG | Is successful in using the amplifier? (5,2,3) |
| UNASSUMING | Modest amount invested in using an alternative (10) |
| MECHANICAL | Person skilled in using machinery, Alan, unconscious (10) |
| OUTSHINING | Doing much better in using hot contents (10) |
| BELLOWS | From which one could get a blow from a bull? (7) |
| SCUFFLE | Fight Les, struggling to get a blow in |
| WHITE | Pale when we get a blow in (5) |
| NOSER | An inquisitive person may get a blow on the hooter (5) |
| STOPPAGE | Deduction in wages due to industrial action? (8) |
| GENERALSTRIKE | Did a senior officer hit out at widespread industrial action? (7,6) |
| STRIKEOUT | Make a beginning by discounting industrial action? (6,3) |
| STRIKEABARGAIN | Reach an agreement over industrial action? (6,1,7) |
| STRIKEALIGHT | Settle on industrial action? Blimey! (6,1,5) |
| LIGHTNINGSTRIKE | Bolt to impromptu industrial action? (9,6) |
| GOSLOW | Lazy sort of industrial action? (2-4) |
| LOCKOUT | Throw away the key for this kind of industrial action? (7) |
| OSLO | City excluding extremists from industrial action? |
