| THEBAN | Old citizen ultimately content with abolition of explosive substance |
| ANNULMENT | Yearbook is missing middle-class workers and those initially associated with abolition of Union (9) |
| NUTRIENT | It nourishes teachers ultimately content with nothing in Paris |
| IMPENDING | Threatened one legislator with abolition (9) |
| RUTHLESS | Callous orders restricting most of the citizens, ultimately (8) |
| LEASEHOLDERS | Those who might be letting last in race into lead, senior citizens, ultimately (12) |
| SETASIDE | Reserve ultimately content to be included in main team |
| TRIBE | The Cherokee, for instance, ultimately content to live around Rhode Island (5) |
| ANARCHISTS | Chris went to a small demonstration right in the middle of Bath -- it was organised by people in favour of the abolition of government (10) |
| JOHNGREENLEAFWHITTIER | US Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery who wrote Snow-Bound and the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (4,9,8) |
| NOUN | Part of speech advocating abolition of New York body (4) |
| DEMONETISATION | Gutted economist in action of castigating the abolition of gold standard? (14) |
| ANARCHIST | Advocate of the abolition of government (9) |
| ANARCHISM | Advocation of the abolition of government |
| GUNPOWDER | Explosive substance consisting of a mixture of saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal? (9) |
| GREY | Whig politician whose term as prime minister saw the passage of the Reform Act and the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (4) |
| GREELEY | US journalist and editor of the New York Tribune which championed the abolition of Slavery (7) |
| HAYNES | Johnny ____ of Fulham was Britain's first footballer to earn A£100 a week, after the 1961 abolition of the A£20 maximum wage |
| WILLIAM | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
| WILBERFORCE | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
