| TAMPS | Thanks to politicians, does a depressing job as a packer (5) |
| TAMPA | Thanks to politician, first automated port in Florida (5) |
| SPINS | A prevaricating politician does this on reversing cuts (5) |
| CHILL | Gelidity; a feverish cold; a feeling of fear; or, a depressing influence (5) |
| ROMPS | Whoops it up, or returns to politicians in the Commons (5) |
| DIRGE | A depressing number are into drug? That's about right (5) |
| OWNER | One having a depressing experience, first off (5) |
| MOPUP | Do an absorbing job as a cleaner (3,2) |
| AMPLE | To politician, money for a noble end is very generous (5) |
| SUPER | Tuesday preceder, to politicians? |
| TRAMP | Chaplin character gave up painting to politician (5) |
| RUBBERSTAMP | Authorise games, thanks to politician (6-5) |
| TAMPER | Thanks to politician, here contents will interfere (6) |
| WAD | What a packer might use, a soldier might eat (3) |
| IVORYTOWER | Dwelling place of academics (according to politicians) - it's a situation in which somebody is sheltered from the difficulties of ordinary life (5,5) |
| POSTMASTER | A teacher after a job as a civil servant (10) |
| TASKMASTER | Teacher after a job as a slave a" driver (4-6) |
| WORKROOM | What politician does to meet everyone in place of business (8) |
| LAMBEAULEAP | Common occurrence in Green Bay after a Packer touchdown |
| PLUNGER | It's a depressing thing to have to use such control (7) |
