| OPACITY | Obscurity of work on a big town (7) |
| DOOR | Do a bit of work on a revolver, possibly (4) |
| CASELOAD | Amount of work on a lawsuit perhaps (4-4) |
| ACIDITY | Bitterness of a detective inspector in a big town (7) |
| CAPITAL | Big letter from a big town (7) |
| OPPRESS | Burden of work on newspapers (7) |
| RETIREE | One out of work on Scottish island (7) |
| ORBITAL | Descriptive of a road or motorway encircling a large town (7) |
| TACITLY | Without words, a metal number divides a large town (7) |
| PAUCITY | Shortage that's turned up, involving a large town (7) |
| CAPACITY | Job of keeping lid on a large town (8) |
| SCARCITY | Drought puts a blemish on a large town (8) |
| SLICKER | Dweller in a large town seen as over-sophisticated and untrustworthy (4,7) |
| READING | A large town in the county where Windsor Castle and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are located (7) |
| HAZE | A word for thick fog, thin mist, lack of definition, obscurity of perception or a state of confusion that also means to bully, rag, vex with excess work or subject to horseplay (4) |
| SYMPHONY | Alastair, reportedly, wants counterfeit work on a big scale (8) |
| WINNEBAGO | Work on a big new camper van |
| OPAL | Work on a large stone (4) |
| OPUS | Artistic work on a large scale (4) |
| EOLITH | Work on weeds, involving lot of work on soil, turning up stone tool (6) |
