| ALFREDTHEGREAT | Old King Aethelred laboured with graft |
| BRIBERY | Payment associated with graft? (7) |
| EXACTION | I once laboured with tax demand that's excessive (8) |
| WELSHCORGI | Cowgirl, she laboured with dog (5,5) |
| GASWORKS | Plant droop reversed with grafts (8) |
| IMPLANTS | One man puts seed in the ground along with grafts (8) |
| UNREADY | AEthelred the -------, king of England 978-1016 (7) |
| EDGAR | "Peaceful" king of England 959-75, father of AEthelred the Unready (5) |
| EDMUND | A son of Aethelred the Unready; Gloucesters illegitimate son in King Lear;or, a sibling in The Chronicles of Narnia (6) |
| EDMUNDII | Known as "Ironside", the son of AEthelred the Unready who was king of England in 1016 (6,1,1) |
| TOBY | Stars as Aethelred on The Last Kingdom, - Regbo (4) |
| STBRICESDAYMASSACRE | The killing of many Danes in England, ordered by AEthelred the Unready in 1002 (2,6,3,8) |
| EMMA | ___ of Normandy, politically astute queen consort of both AEthelred the Unready and Cnut (4) |
| ASHDOWN | AEthelred and a young Alfred the Great defeated the Danes at the battle of ___ in AD 871 (7) |
| SPINTO | Laboured points with a dramatic lyricism |
| OILED | With time off, laboured like smooth-running machine (5) |
| ASTHMA | Resolve a maths problem with laboured breathing |
| WATLINGSTREET | Old way gentle artist laboured to support wife |
| GASP | Short, laboured intake of breath with the mouth open (4) |
| GASPS | Short laboured intakes of breath with the mouth open (5) |
