| MOUNTETNA | Hephaestus' workshop was said to be under it |
| ETNA | Mountain said to be Hephaestus' workshop, in Greek myth |
| SKYLAB | The orbital workshop was its largest component |
| PAR | It's better to be under it than below it |
| OCEAN | Atlantis is supposed to be under it |
| DURESS | People may have a compulsion to be under it (6) |
| REINSTATED | Got back to work, said to be under control |
| PECAN | A nut's what might be said to be under the bed |
| INCHECK | Trendy European said to be under control (2,5) |
| MINOR | One said to be under age, he is working in the pit (5) |
| LEGENDARY | The first Yokozuna was said to be Akashi Shiganosuke in 1624; using both meanings of the word, his wrestling skills and very existence are said to be this |
| RED | -backed shrike, bird whose last British breeding stronghold was said to be in Norfolk in the 1990s before it made a return to a secret Dartmoor site in 2010 (3) |
| SCHOLARS | Ireland was said to be be an island of saints and ... |
| DIERESIS | I, perhaps, may be under it when small (8) |
| TARPAULIN | A woodpile may be under it |
| OATH | One might be under it in court |
| UNFITFORPURPOSE | Reporting sick to skive off, as 19 was said to be? (5,3,7) |
| COOLABAH | Under which swagman was said to be less hot by watering hole (8) |
| YOUWONTSEEME | Anne Murray's version of it was said to be John lennon's favourite cover of a Beatles song ever: 4 wds. |
| ENDALL | World War I was said to be "the war to __ ___ wars". (3,3) |
