| BEERCANS | Which containers weigh about 45% less than they did in 1978? (4,4) |
| KETTLES | Which containers are used for boiling water to make tea (7) |
| TYPEO | Like about 45% of human blood |
| ELLS | About 45% of Lucille Ball |
| IOTA | 'You are not an ___ less than they': Whitman |
| GARFIELD | Which fat ginger comic strip cat made his debut in 1978? (8) |
| GAVOTTES | Dances they did in Louis XIV's court |
| WELLNIGH | Weigh about two pounds and a quarter, almost (44) |
| TELEPORT | Recurrent theme allowed to return as they do in Star Trek? |
| DAVIDSON | And 4, In 1983, US President Ronald Reagan ordered a 45% import tariff on large motorcycles to protect which manufacturer? (6,8) |
| FLITCHES | "Flayed, torn off" slabs of any meat first, now cured sides of pork, awarded to Essex's happily married couples who can prove they do, in fact, talk (8) |
| TITANIUM | What metal is as strong as steel but 45% lighter? (8) |
| OVERRATE | Reckon the bowling figures to be better than they are? (8) |
| ACROSSES | 45% of the answers here |
| BELFAST | In which city was the De Lorean car factory set up in 1978? (7) |
| IHEARMENACHEM | "Butch can't come in", something Jimmy Carter probably never said at the Camp David talks in 1978? |
| YMCA | What was Village People's only Number One hit, in 1978? (inits)(4) |
| NOT | "What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do - we are told expressly, that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage." Swift, A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (3) |
| EPEE | Sports equipment that can weigh about a pound (more or less) |
| LYNCH | String up, as they did in the Old West |
