| ASBUSYASABEE | Working hard in the garden? (2,4,2,1,3) |
| BUSYASABEE | Working hard in the service of the queen (4,2,1,3) |
| INDUSTRIOUS | Working hard in the States to contain fuss over port |
| SCRUB | Hardy in the garden, hard in the kitchen (5) |
| GRAFTER | One working hard in an orchard? (7) |
| TSELIOT | Art working hard in retirement as poet |
| ANT | One working hard in Victorian times |
| CHANTILLY | One working hard in cold French town |
| FERMANAGH | Female, a German working hard in NI county (9) |
| LEONARDO | Working hard in Bermondsey, engaged by sign painter (8) |
| GRAFTING | Working hard in surgery (8) |
| TILTH | Working hard in support of sporting attempt |
| LABYRINTH | Knight wearing a trilby, working hard in maze (9) |
| OILER | Losing head, one working hard in fuel ship |
| WHIM | Fancy working hard in marketplace, at start (4) |
| CRAMMEDIN | Studied hard, in the end, but packed it in (7,2) |
| DELUGE | Pull hard in the river during the downpour |
| CHARITY | Endlessly hard in the big place to get help for the poor |
| SCRUBS | Young scouts have the right to point as mum works hard in the laundry (6) |
| SMITES | Hits hard, in the Bible |
