| PACKHORSE | The beast that carried the load was a drudge (9) |
| AWASH | A laundry load was flooded (5) |
| BEOUR | With 35-Across, Oscar-nominated song from Disney's Beauty and the Beast that lost to the movie's title song: 2 wds. |
| MAYFLOWER | The ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to North America in 1620 (9) |
| TREADMILL | Start to study a philosopher? It's a drudge (9) |
| GRADUATED | Got a sheepskin shaken at a drudge (9) |
| ONHISBACK | Where "The Man With the Hoe" carried the world, in an Edwin Markham poem |
| ENDEAVOUR | Ship that carried Captain James Cook on his first voyage to the South Pacific in 1768 (9) |
| ISERE | French frigate that carried the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. |
| TENDER | The boat that carried the offer (6) |
| PREVAILED | Evil padre carried the day (9) |
| TERRANOVA | Ship that carried Captain Scott's team on their 1910 polar expedition (5,4) |
| VOSTOK | Which series of six manned Soviet orbiting spacecraft included the one that carried the first man in space? (6) |
| ARGO | Ship that carried the Golden Fleece searchers |
| RONCLARKE | Australian long distance runner who in 1956 carried the Olympic torch into the stadium in Melbourne (3,6) |
| TABERNACLE | The portable sanctuary in the form of a tent in which the ancient Israelites carried the Ark of the Covenant in the Old Testament |
| SCRUB | Word for a hard scour of one's face or floor; a worn-out broom; exfoliant; a calling-off; a stunted tree, hence anything undersized; brushwood; or, a drudge, meanie or small person (5) |
| INTER | The 166 was among the handful of Ferraris that carried this name (5) |
| DOGSBODY | What the setter has, being a drudge! |
| SLAV | To be a drudge is a little too much for this European (4) |
