| BARGRAPH | Catch up, then strike hard in proportional representation (3,5) |
| SMITE | Strike hard, in the Bible |
| REBATE | Discount to exist, coming up in proportional price |
| QUOTHA | Indeed hothead included in proportional share (6) |
| TUBTHUMP | Speak passionately, but another way, then strike (3-5) |
| TINSMITH | Metalworker can mostly strike hard (8) |
| HOMERUNS | US strikes hard: Republican peacekeepers are in some trouble (4,4) |
| PIECHART | Chapter 1 reviewed method of proportional representation |
| PREVAILS | As evil Proportional Representation wins through (8) |
| PRECLUDE | Forestall when exclude ten leaving by proportional representation (8) |
| OGRESSES | Terrible women throttling proportional representation advances (8) |
| PARSNIPS | Check Spain's proportional representation for roots (8) |
| SUSPENDERBELT | Delay, hesitate, then strike undergarment (9,4) |
| TIE | Now and then strike match (3) |
| WAP | Pull hand back, then strike with force (3) |
| CARPEDIEM | Fish go in mid-December, so strike now! (5,4) |
| BAILIFF | Trouble in strike hard to take out as land agent. (7) |
| OCCUR | It may happen to so strike one (5) |
| SMITES | The tiny one points then strikes (6) |
| BATTER | Strike hard and often (6) |
