| PEASANTS | Members of a social class that depended on cottage industry or agricultural labour for subsistence (8) |
| PEASANT | A member of a class of low social status that depended on either cottage industry or agricultural labour to subsist (7) |
| NORMS | Established standards of behaviour shared by members of a social group (5) |
| PETITBOURGEOIS | Terribly repetitious gob of a social class |
| CREE | First Nation that depended on bison |
| UPPERMIDDLE | Like the social class that includes managers |
| RICHE | Nouveau ___ (social class that recently became wealthy) |
| POTATO | Root vegetable of a plant in the nightshade family, served mashed on cottage pie or sliced on Lancashire hotpot (6) |
| AGED | Knocking on cottage door frames (4) |
| THATCHING | Rush job on cottage? (9) |
| HIVE | Skep or box forming an apiary for a colony of honeybees of the same name; thus, a place of great industry or busyness; or, a teeming crowd (4) |
| SCREEN | A partition of timber or stone in a church or a medieval hall; a sieve; framed mesh for serigraphy; the film industry; or, movies collectively (6) |
| BUSINESS | A group of ferrets; or, from the Old English for "anxiety", a word whose early sense was used to mean a state of being fully occupied, later commerce, industry or trade (8) |
| ALLOTMENT | Word for an act of apportionment; the portion granted; a parcel of a field historically assigned to a tenant cottager to labour for him/herself; or, today, a plot rented to grow one's own flowers, fru |
| ORDER | Fraternity of knights, monks or nuns; a customer's request for something to be made, serviced or supplied; or, a social class (5) |
| MINING | Industry or process of extracting coal from a pit/seam; or, the burrowing work of a bee such as the "scabious" species - a naturalist's dream (6) |
| SUBSIDY | A financial aid supplied by a government to help an industry or business, or to pay for a public service (7) |
| FARM | Used as the backdrop in books such as Black Beauty, Charlotte's Web, Follyfoot or War Horse, a rural or agricultural tract of land, typically with a homestead (4) |
| BRAHMAN | Member of a social and cultural elite |
| NOB | Member of a social elite |
