| TEMPTRESS | Very in thrall to short-contract workers (one's a siren) |
| CANTONESE | Worker one's seen entering church is from far eastern city (9) |
| CONCEIT | Conservative leader in thrall to anti-European magnetism? A fanciful notion! (7) |
| CANNIBAL | Writer in thrall to channel, one getting through a lot of people? |
| UNDERTHETHUMB | In thrall to, dominated (5,3,5) |
| SASHA | Cinders in thrall to It Girl? (5) |
| LOVER | Student no longer in thrall to enthusiast (5) |
| CHEGUEVARA | Revolutionary party in thrall to curiously gauche Marxist (3,7) |
| SLOVAK | Sweetheart briefly in thrall to drink, missing Eastern European (6) |
| ARIES | Sign of one in thrall to warmonger (5) |
| MINISTERIAL | Short series of episodes involving leader in thrall of a government department (11) |
| TRIUMPHAL | Victorious president holds one in thrall on a regular basis (9) |
| TRADEMARKHARMONY | Distinctive feature of a CSNY concert holding an actor in thrall? |
| SERVITUDE | Reforming EU, strive to keep Germany in thrall (9) |
| RAMESES | Aries points repeatedly to Egyptian pharaoh who held the Israelites in thrall (7) |
| YOKEL | Peasant in bondage, ending in thrall |
| ENPASSANT | Move with European banks, approve a short contract (2,7) |
| AGREEMENT | Contract workers welcomed by a salute (9) |
| HITMEN | Contract workers perhaps losing rag in nightmare (3,3) |
| MENACE | To the workers, one is a threat (6) |