| NATURALRESOURCE | Rue our ancestral exploitation of oil, say, or water? |
| REELS | _ oil : says or recites very rapidly? |
| MOORHEN | Another piece of chicken, I say, or water-bird? (7) |
| ELEMENT | Part of fire (or air, earth or water?) (7) |
| AVENS | Plant of the rose family such as wood ? or water ? (5) |
| INRUSH | Sudden arrival (of people or water?) (6) |
| ONAIR | Live without food or water? (2,3) |
| HOE | "The Man with the ___" (poem of protest against the exploitation of labor) (3) |
| ABUSE | ___ of power (illegal exploitation of authority) |
| SLAVE | Exploitation of people or valuables somehow (5,6) |
| LABOUR | Exploitation of people or valuables somehow (5,6) |
| VEHICLES | Water and oil, say, for cars and buses, say (8) |
| PISTOLSTARTER | Cap or water? |
| HUNTING | Exploitation of quarry in small European country containing metal (7) |
| VAMPIRISM | Bloody exploitation of seductive woman with flag on motorway (9) |
| CORPORATION | Chapter on exploitation of poor helping large firm (11) |
| TAKINGADVANTAGE | Exploitation of superiority leaves a model in pain, we hear (6,9) |
| FARCE | A broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations (5) |
| SEAHORSES | Exploitation of what sea creatures for Chinese medicine is threatening their survival? (3,6) |
| ENTHALPY | They plan exploitation of body heat? (8) |
