| GROUNDRUNNING | 16 20 got cracking welcome on wagon: chap worked with mill operative (3,3,6,7) |
| HITTHE | 16 20 got cracking welcome on wagon: chap worked with mill operative (3,3,6,7) |
| SPINNER | Top cotton-mill operative (7) |
| PHLEGMATICAL | Unemotional legal chap worked with MIT (12) |
| PHARMACY | Chap worked with Army dispensary (8) |
| SCHNAPPS | Chaps worked with SNP to generate spirit (8) |
| INANUTSHELL | Briefly, where there's evidence someone got cracking to find food (2,1,8) |
| TRANSACT | Do business with rifle, briefly opening up on wagon (8) |
| OCTETTE | Run over on wagon, alien with skin of green composition (7) |
| WENTTOIT | Got cracking |
| RANSACKS | Rifles got cracking and fires (8) |
| PUSILLANIMOUS | Chicken soup in USA ground with mill (13) |
| CIRCULARSAW | Battling crucial wars with mill machinery (8,3) |
| TILL | Work the soil (rhymes with mill) |
| RILL | Small water source (rhymes with mill) |
| STEEL | Word with mill, guitar or drum |
| BOON | Who, along with Mills, founded a publishing company famous for romantic novels? (4) |
| HIDALGO | Welcome on the way up pleased old Spanish gentleman |
| EGGSANDBACON | Plant that's welcome on breakfast plate? (4-3-5) |
| RECEPTION | The welcome on the tarmac after a politician's plane lands? |
