| CONTRACTS | Study some plots that are subject to decline, at this end (9) |
| YEARBOOKS | Publications that are subject to peer review? |
| INTRIGUING | Devising plots that are interesting (10) |
| GRAPHS | Statisticians' artworks in the form of charts, curves, diagrams, pies and plots that are more than mere lines and squiggles, but symbolic keys revealing data's hidden figures and meanings (6) |
| ICELANDER | Unexpected decline at onset of recession involving a European (9) |
| TOYOTA | Make of six models that are subject to recall ... and being sent back inside this puzzle's theme entries |
| RECHARGEABLE | Like batteries that are subject to further payment (12) |
| ABSTAIN | Ratings can conceal a decline at voting time |
| FACADE | Bill in decline at the front (6) |
| ROYALMINT | Government-owned company producing up to 90 million coins and blanks a week, some of which are subject to the periodic trial of the pyx procedure (5,4) |
| TENANCIES | They are subject to negotiation by letters (9) |
| INTRIGUED | Made secret plots that fascinated (9) |
| BOTANISTS | They study some biology - maggot is found in insects |
| AGGRAVATE | Make worse in key opening around plot that isn't finished (9) |
| ARROWROOT | Pointer to one perhaps deep in plot that thickens |
| GUNPOWDER | Plot that failed? Good: prisoner taken in below (9) |
| PEACETIME | King, perhaps, heard of utter uprising. When this ends, it's war |
| ASITCOMES | A TV show like this ends in any way whatsoever (2,2,5) |
| ALLOTMENT | Council plot that may be productive (9) |
| LOOSE | Nothing to to do at this end (5) |
