| BUMPKIN | Yokel's plight at first, restricted by useless family |
| GATED | Attendance down, at first, restricted to college (5) |
| LIGHTSHIP | Primarily, I've helped stop plight at sea (9) |
| INDEPTH | Detailed description's first suppressed by useless hotel (2-5) |
| DUFFER | Useless claim made by useless person |
| VALENTINE | Abstinence accepted by useless English lover (9) |
| LUSTS | Many seeing love replaced by useless cravings (5) |
| TITUS | Groan, say, provoked by useless sort on our side (5) |
| UMPIRES | Military policeman's anger, when blocked by useless officials |
| BUMF | Scrap paper originally by useless married female (4) |
| JERK | Sudden movement by useless person, some say (4) |
| TACITUS | Implied by useless Roman historian (7) |
| ENTRUST | Hand over hospital department run by useless technocrats originally |
| BUMPKINS | Yokels displace family with son |
| BUMPKINISH | Swelling family, his, confused like yokels |
| CHICKS | Baby birds caught by yokels (6) |
| PEASANTS | Yokels in endless quiet among pines (8) |
| LYSENKO | Russian geneticist getting yokels upset about reproduction finally (7) |
| TADZHIKS | Central Asians touch base in Oz with heartless yokels |
| HEBE | Her Excellency is, according to some yokels, a goddess |
