| INCONVENIENCE | Making use of public facilities? That's a nuisance |
| GAO | Investigative arm of Congress, acting as overseer, particularly in use of public funds: abbr. |
| GESTUREPOLITICS | Polite rustics e.g. disputed use of public symbols, say (7,8) |
| PEST | Half of capital lost? That's a nuisance |
| HANDFUL | Bananas: food without energy? That's a nuisance |
| PAIN | Mediterranean country lacking sun? That's a nuisance (4) |
| UPTAKE | The action of making use of boxer starting off on bit of filming (6) |
| RAGPICKER | A bone-grubber, chiffonnier, junk-dealer, rummager, scrounger or totter who earns a living by making use of scavenged old clothes, tatters and other everyday discards or scrap (9) |
| CAKED | Making use of a deck, get plastered (5) |
| APPLIER | One making use of a power tool briefly |
| SIFTER | One's making use of a riddle |
| CALLINGON | Making use of a line, hold desperately tight around it |
| ONTHEWING | Old collection of books - making use of 19 in flight? |
| SMOKING | Making use of a cigarette (7) |
| DOLMEN | One of those old grave types making use of The Stones provided party for 50 workers (6) |
| DOCUDRAMA | Term for a hybrid film or TV genre, based on real events but making use of artistic licence |
| EMPLOYING | Making use of tactic embraced by oriental dynasty (9) |
| IGNATIUSLOYOLA | Saintly fellow making use of Italian guy's loo (8,6) |
| HITECH | Making use of up-to-date resources in Whitechapel (2-4) |
| LIFELINE | Cat past fifty-one - is it making use of its ninth? |
