| GULAG | Russian forced-labour camp (5) |
| ROBOT | The concept of artificial humans predates recorded history, but the modern term _____ derives from a Czech word that means forced labour or serf, used in Karel AÂŒapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (5) |
| PENAL | - colony, convict labour camp (5) |
| SINGULAR | Strange offence; forced labour camp not good answer ultimately (8) |
| CAMP | A penal institution (often for forced labour) (4) |
| SLAVERY | Forced labour |
| ENSLAVE | Take into forced labour (7) |
| SLAVERS | Fawns over dealers in forced labour (7) |
| ROBOTS | From the Czech word for "forced labour", What first appeared in a 1920 play written by Karel Capek? (6) |
| LANGUAGE | Russian, say, has way round labour camp, gutted (8) |
| ZEK | USSR labour camp inmate (3) |
| LAMBRUSCO | Red, Labour's camp oddly revolutionary (9) |
| ANGULATE | Endless Soviet labour camp fenced by stake with spikes (8) |
| LAMP | Shines a light on the extremes of labour camp (4) |
| FARM | Son very much involved in proper agricultural labour camp (6,4) |
| PRISON | Son very much involved in proper agricultural labour camp (6,4) |
| PRISONFARM | Son very much involved in proper agricultural labour camp (6.4) |
| KOLYMA | Named after a Siberian river, region in the Russian Far East known for Gulag labour camps and gold mining (6) |
| NATAL | Worker forced to retire the French of labour (5) |
| CLYDE | Forced filthy concoction on site of 25Dn 5Dn (5,2,5) |
