| GOSLOW | Industrial action leads to girls on strike losing other work |
| WORRYBEADS | Angry talk about railway strike losing time - these people have to relax |
| LAMBETH | Little girl on strike because she canet have the job? (7) |
| UNDIMINISHED | Relentless action leads to a foreign policeman finding car by outhouse (12) |
| RASHNESS | Hasty action leads to spotty state? (8) |
| BASIL | Man giving note to girl on rising (5) |
| SUBNORMAL | Small advance to girl on line who is not up to scratch (9) |
| INTER | Action lead-in |
| ROCKTHEBOAT | Back to other work - make things difficult for colleagues |
| REASSIGN | Fool has broken rule - put him to other work (8) |
| ALEC | Greven who wrote the 2008 best seller "How to Talk to Girls" |
| CROSSREFERENCE | Peevish employer's report that may provide access to other work |
| BLUEPENCIL | To censor or make cuts in a manuscript, film or other work (4,6) |
| REHEARSE | To practise a play or other work for later public performance (8) |
| DAYJOB | Work that might subsidize other work |
| MOONLIGHTFLIT | To do other work at night and lift it out leaves landlord short (9,4) |
| ALLEGORY | A story, picture or other work of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning (8) |
| COPY | From "abundance, plenty", word first for a transcript of an original, later an individual specimen of an article, book, newspaper or other work; matter to be typeset/printed; or, an imitation or repro |
| ONETRUE | Words that when followed by Voice gives the name of the boy band who lost to Girls Aloud on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002 (3,4) |
| PASTICHE | First person in Berlin to get enthralled by pulp composition based on other works (8) |
