| RAILHEAD | End of the line abolished at privatisation? (8) |
| DEREGULATION | The privatisation of the bus industry following the 1985 Transport Act |
| SID | The person who had to be told about the 1986 privatisation of British Gas |
| PERMANENT | The ... Way, David Hare play about the privatisation of British Railways, first performed in 2003 (9) |
| THATCHERISM | Policies of monetarism and privatisation in the 1980s |
| OFTEL | Telecommunications regulator set up in 1984 after the privatisation of BT (5) |
| ACTS | Such as the Railways ones of 1921 (Grouping) or 1993 (privatisation) (4) |
| AVIARIST | No point in botched privatisation for manager of restricted flight area (8) |
| AVIATION | Flying strip missing from privatisation (8) |
| SELLOFF | Push bad privatisation (4,3) |
| THATCHERITE | Favouring monetarism, privatisation etc (11) |
| OLIGARCHS | Post-Soviet entrepreneurs who acquired great wealth during privatisation (9) |
| BOYAR | Member of the old aristocracy of Russia ranking just below a prince, abolished by the reforms of Peter the Great (1672-1725) |
| TITHES | What was the name given to taxes payable to the church, abolished in the 19th century? (6) |
| SAMURAI | Japanese warrior class, 12th to 19th centuries, effectively abolished with the end of feudalism (7) |
| KINGCHARLES | The English monarchy was (temporarily) abolished after the execution of this ruler (4,7) |
| ELEGIT | Writ of execution by which a debtor's property is delivered to a plaintiff pending discharge of the debt, abolished in England in 1956 (6) |
| BAN | The _ was the popular name for the GAA's rule about "foreign sports'; abolished in 1971 (3) |
| OLDHABITSDIEHARD | Traditions persist? Roughly a third abolished by end of period |
| ABBREVIATION | Pre-eminence of a state which has abolished the nobility? (12) |
