| IDEOLOGY | Carp at any science being basis for political action (8) |
| ROCKETRY | Branch of science being launched? |
| VENDETTA | 'V for ******** ', 2005 political action film starring Natalie Portman (8) |
| PACIFISM | Nonviolence condition held by political-action committee is met, at first (8) |
| BLOWBACK | Unintended adverse results from a political action (8) |
| PITCHERS | 60lb+ carp at Old Mill Lakes, Lincs. (*perch sit) (8) |
| LOBBYIST | Political action committee |
| OLOGY | Facetious term for any science or field of study (5) |
| CHARLOTTE | *Chortle at... name of 47lb+ carp at Furzebray Lakes (9) |
| PACIFY | It will placate political action committee as long as it's at the start of the year |
| BACKPAY | Remedy for wage violations coming from Reverend Spooner's political-action committee, sweetie (4,3) |
| LONDON | Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart political action thriller, ...has fallen (6) |
| BIPAC | Business Industry Political Action Committee (abbr) (5) |
| AIR | 1997 political-action thriller starring Harrison Ford, --- Force One (3) |
| LOBBIED | Tossed outside, I took political action (7) |
| CABAL | Group who plan secretly to take political action |
| EMILY | ..... 's List, US political action committee(5) |
| EMILYSLIST | *Prominent left-leaning political action committee |
| STRIKE | Political action as a sign of the times? (6) |
| VFOR | ___ Vendetta, 2005 dystopian political action film based on a comic (1,3) |
