| HARDBACK | Relentless person, difficult to oppose (8) |
| HEAVYSLEEPER | Person difficult to wake (5,7) |
| HANDFUL | A thing or person difficult to manage or control (7) |
| DIEHARD | Person difficult to suppress (7) |
| DEVIL | Day with hideous person difficult to handle (5) |
| PERVERSE | Disposed to oppose and contradict (8) |
| DISAGREE | Daughter is eager, running round to oppose (8) |
| CONTRACT | Have an agreement to oppose most of attracts (8) |
| IMPOLITE | Rude urchin beginning to oppose diet (8) |
| STRAIGHT | Desirable poker hand to oppose with expression befitting poker (8,4) |
| WATTYLER | English leader of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, organised to oppose Richard II's poll tax (3,5) |
| STINKER | Unpleasant person - difficult task (7) |
| AMITY | A person chosen to oppose others, in my understanding (5) |
| VEGETATE | Do nothing to oppose, for example, engineer responsible for 18 across, for instance (8) |
| WOEBEGONE | Sad to see West beginning to oppose East? Ask for unity (9) |
| RESISTIBLE | Possible to oppose Brexit's lies, broken with vote to leave |
| GREENMOUNTAINBOYS | Militia organised in Vermont in 1770, under Ethan Allen, to oppose New York's territorial claims (5,8,4) |
| FACE | Desirable poker hand to oppose with expression befitting poker (8,4) |
| RESIST | Another rise over the way to oppose |
| ENCOUNTER | Points to oppose in meeting (9) |
