| DISCERNING | Astute nuclear lab supplants power at the heart of CND's aim |
| KAREN | Nuclear lab technician and activist played by 25/16 in a 1983 film (5,8) |
| SILKWOOD | Nuclear lab technician and activist played by 25/16 in a 1983 film (5,8) |
| BANTHEBOMB | CND's anti-nuclear slogan (3,3,4) |
| NERVA | Considered one of the "Five Good Emperors," he came to power at the age of 66. |
| KUNDALINI | From Sanskrit for "snake", coiled energy or "serpent power" at the base of the spine, according to yogis (9) |
| SUPREME | Certain the writer packs power at the topmost level (7) |
| COAST | Get along without power at the seaside (5) |
| ODIUM | Hatred in speaker's position after losing power at the top (5) |
| PRESUMED | Was impertinent, having again taken up power at the top |
| PECTORALGIRDLE | Structure for supporting managing director legal, there's power at the top |
| PRESENT | Begrudge power at the top here (7) |
| ELOPE | Did an old band, in short, have power, at the end, to get to a match (5) |
| ISOBEL | Old boy supplants artist in heart of country girl |
| OUSTS | Forces out of a position or place, supplants or expels (5) |
| ACCRA | Flow of power at half-crazed Ghanaian port city (5) |
| OWNERSHIP | Possession? Last of men in his power at sea |
| PARENTS | Takes care of power at academy and lets out (7) |
| USURPER | He supplants one super Rugby Union movement (7) |
| SCRABSTER | Hermit perhaps supplants nun's independence on 19Ac (9) |
