| DICKENSIAN | Like a squalid factory or a grim childhood, perhaps |
| FITTER | Skilled worker in a factory or a workshop? (6) |
| MINORAILMENT | Recovery likely from it with fresh application of liniment - or a grim end? |
| REMINISCENCES | Glimpses of childhood perhaps |
| DOTAGE | Second childhood, perhaps |
| LOFT | Pigeon house or shed; storage space under a roof; or, a factory or warehouse converted into open-plan living space (4) |
| CREAMERY | A type of factory or farm where milk is made into butter and cheese; or, a shop or parlour for the sale of said dairy products (8) |
| COMPOUND | An enclosure around a house or factory or for housing prisoners or detainees (8) |
| PLANT | A tree, shrub or herb / factory or mill |
| SLUM | A squalid overcrowded house or section of a city (4) |
| MANUFACTURER | One who owns a factory or employs workers producing a commodity (12) |
| CANTEEN | Restaurant attached to a factory or school, providing meals for a large number of people (7) |
| OUTPUT | The yield from a factory or mine |
| REJIG | Re-equip a factory or plant (5) |
| WORKWEAR | Clothes, such as overalls, worn in a factory or shop (8) |
| AUTOMATES | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| ASYLUM | Refuge for youth leader in a squalid district (6) |
| SWEATSHOP | Factory or workshop using exploited labour (5,4) |
| STAGEY | Time imprisoned in a squalid place may be exaggerated |
| SKIDROW | Stops first child squabble in a squalid district (4,3) |
