| BLUECOLLAR | Navy perhaps could tackle these workers (4-6) |
| STEVEDORES | No holds are barred to these workers! (10) |
| BLUEBOTTLE | Officer daring to join navy, perhaps |
| ROCKBOTTOM | To twerk, perhaps, could be as low as it gets (4,6) |
| COUNTYTOWN | Huntingdon, perhaps, could have been one in a hundred (10) |
| CHANGELESS | Board game about Gabriel perhaps could be fixed (10) |
| FLICKKNIFE | Movie with Bowie perhaps could be an assailant's weapon (5,5) |
| ANTS | Tip off the needs of these workers (4) |
| UNIONS | Spouses come together in these workers' groups (6) |
| CASUAL | Are these workers too careless for regular employment? (6) |
| COLOURSERGEANT | Cloth worker joins navy, perhaps, becoming NCO? (6,8) |
| BLUE | Navy, perhaps, where this word goes before Peter (4) |
| OFFCOLOUR | Turned navy, perhaps, under the weather (3-6) |
| GOTOSEA | Join the Canadian Navy, perhaps |
| COLOURFUL | Sweary navy, perhaps, drunk in the main (9) |
| TAXIDRIVERS | The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize this month for exposing predatory loans given to these workers |
| TAKETOTHEBOTTLE | What baby-faced type and drunk do? Genie in the Arabian Nights perhaps could do the same! (4,2,3,6) |
| PUNCTUATIONMARK | Colon perhaps could become twisted up mountain track (11,4) |
| SEEKER | What, perhaps, could Judith Durham have been called (6) |
| HELPER | Ethel, perhaps could give us a hand (6) |
