| TALBOTTAGORA | This 'TT' was an executive flop for PSA in the early Eighties (6,6) |
| NONDRINKER | AA membership inappropriate for this TT devotee |
| PETERWHEELER | He took over TVR in the early 1980s (5,7) |
| UNDERFOOT | On the ground, like the Labour Party in the early Eighties (9) |
| RIALTOS | Reliant three-wheelers that arrived in the early Eighties (7) |
| PORT | Ellesmere _ _, where Vauxhall Astra production began in the early Eighties (4) |
| PONY | Hyundai hatchback that arrived in the early Eighties (4) |
| GORDINITURBO | 110bhp Renault 5 from the early 1980s (7,5) |
| TARHEEL | Michael Jordan, in the early eighties |
| ORION | Ford saloon launched in the early Eighties (5) |
| ITAL | Morris model made in the early Eighties (4) |
| EIRE | Part of the Emerald Isle from the early eighties thereafter |
| MICRAS | Nissan superminis released in the early 1980s, known as the March in Japan (6) |
| TECHNO | Electronic dance music genre for Kraftwerk, which originated in Germany in the early 1980s |
| ARNAZ | Lucie who was an executive producer on the film "Being the Ricardos" |
| SHYDI | British royal, to the press, when she first stepped onto the world stage in the early 1980s: 2 wds. |
| SHEREHITE | In the early 1980s, which woman published reports on female and male sexuality in the US? (5,4) |
| TROPHY | Prize for the annual USA versus UK match races that became a little one-sided in the early 1980s. (13,6) |
| TRANSATLANTIC | Prize for the annual USA versus UK match races that became a little one-sided in the early 1980s. (13,6) |
| EIDER | Kind of down from the early eighties with redbacks |
