| UNEMPLOYMENT | Union staff back scheme meant, I hear, to lower this? (12) |
| SACREDCOW | Scared, Charlie moves lower and lower - this cannot be criticised (6,3) |
| EMPLOYEE | Worker needs me to back scheme by European economic leaders (8) |
| PLAICE | One has scaled back scheme after reducing reserve (6) |
| REBATERS | Businesses offering money-back schemes |
| BEMYGUEST | In Belgium, Mary was gutted, I hear, to have inferred that I'd asked her to help herself |
| ETAMINE | It's meant, i.e., to be material |
| OPENSHOP | Frank to inform against business accepting non-union staff (4,4) |
| DORSET | Ready to follow staff back around Weymouth (6) |
| UPROOT | More expensive way, I hear, to pull out (6) |
| DEWDROP | A little condensation expected, I hear, to fall (7) |
| ITINERARY | Plan I hear to keep home quite a long time (9) |
| PARAPHERNALIA | Soldier arranged plan, I hear, to obtain equipment (13) |
| MINERAL | ...or, I hear, to get it you need a miner, Albert, mostly (7) |
| LEAKAGE | Leek, I hear, to mature with a slow loss of water (7) |
| BEETROOT | Beat route, I hear, to yield vegetable (8) |
| GYPSUM | Swindle a few, I hear, to get some plaster (6) |
| KNITWEAR | Fool I hear to be dressed in a woollen jumper maybe (8) |
| MEANTIME | Meant I was by myself in the interim (8) |
| PAGERS | Devices on which "143" meant "I love you" |
