| HARDING | Tough in Government for Wilson's successor (7) |
| LAVENDER | Satirical name for Wilson's resignation honours in 1976 (8,4) |
| SHULA | George Wilson's successor at Miami |
| ORCHARD | Ring found by Catholic, tough, in garden of fruit trees (7) |
| REGIMES | Governments, for example, welcomed by emirs in trouble (7) |
| HAIROIL | Greaser endlessly tough in awful weather (4,3) |
| FEDERAL | Common government for a group of normally autonomous states or regions (7) |
| POLITIC | Is it sensible to have the science of government, for instance, cut short? (7) |
| OUTINGS | Expose elected government for initiating spa excursions |
| ROADMAP | Street plan needed by US government for peace, apparently (4,3) |
| POLISCI | College major dealing with governments, for short |
| GLANCE | Take a quick look in Government for one of the cuts in the hospital sector (6) |
| CATCHING | Pull out of the air in Government for The Gathering (8) |
| DITHERING | Some discredit her in government for being indecisive |
| CROSSING | Stand up to someone in Government for what's happening on the border (8) |
| RENTCONTROL | Tear to government for regulation (4,7) |
| GLIDER | Flighty type upsets revolutionary in local government, for starters (6) |
| REGIME | Government, for example, involved in something frosty? |
| MACHO | Tough in Tijuana |
| STEEL | Rob heard it's very tough in construction (5) |
