| UNDERPAID | Turned up drained when exploited at work (9) |
| HAMMERANDSICKLE | Emblem of Communism in Kremlin made cash when exploited (6,3,6) |
| NIBBLED | Writer's tip drained when bitten |
| PUMPKIN | A gourd that's horrifically exploited at end of October (7) |
| USEDUP | Exhausted and exploited at university (4,2) |
| ENTENTE | Friendly understanding hospital department twice exploited at first |
| RESEMBLED | Looked like Greeks regularly exploited space up top (9) |
| PARASITES | Unfortunately, when I lived near the sea, on a small street in Par, I was visited by many people who exploited this (9) |
| UNDERUSED | Given little employment, no-hoper wanting best friend gets exploited (9) |
| POTENTIAL | Oil patent, if exploited, shows promise (9) |
| HARNESSED | Difficult to have sense, possibly being exploited (9) |
| TREASURED | Cherished use trader exploited (9) |
| DEVELOPED | Exploited the natural resources and processed the picture (9) |
| AMSTERDAM | Master exploited mother for capital (9) |
| LOOPHOLES | Waste disposal unit, Europeans spotted outside hospital, exploited contractual ambiguities (9) |
| SWEATSHOP | Upsetting tapes show where labour is exploited (9) |
| CENTENARY | Canteen exploited all leaving rally for a long time (9) |
| HEARTACHE | Find out cheat exploited grief (9) |
| HOMUNCULI | Little men exploited cardinal humour off radar (9) |
| DEEPSOUTH | Exploited the pseudo-Confederate states (4,5) |
