| MINERS | They're underground workers in the East, the wife holds (6) |
| SINECURE | In the East, the remedy for sin is to find a job with no work! (8) |
| VIGILANTES | Vigil kept by social workers in the east revealing amateur law-enforcers (10) |
| DISORDERLY | Confused underground worker in hospital (10) |
| CARVINGKNIFE | Farmer's wife holds onto this in 5 down for the Sunday roast? (7,5) |
| GRASSROOTS | Ordinary people, they're underground in the field (5,5) |
| AMPERSAND | Sign impedes worker in the East End |
| AMAH | Domestic worker in the East |
| GEORGE | Author of the novels The Nether World and Workers in the Dawn (6,7) |
| DIETED | Out East, the couple watched what they ate (6) |
| ASTERN | Moving east, the navy is behind (6) |
| GREATBASIN | North American region bordered by the Sierra Nevada range on the west, the Wasatch Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau on the north, and the Mojave Desert on the south. |
| UNISON | Union that represents public sector workers in the UK (6) |
| MOLEST | Attack underground workers heading for tunnel (6) |
| MINORS | Reportedly, underground workers could be little ones (6) |
| RANCHO | A hut housing agricultural workers in the southwestern US |
| ERMINE | English underground worker's back-to-front fur coat |
| SELLAPUP | Swindle from the east the French readily swallow |
| ORIENTAL | Pertaining to the East: the opposite of occidental (8) |
| IMAGE | Idol from the East the Wise Men turned to first (5) |
