| GRAVEDIGGER | One unearthing a plot in Hamlet |
| REGICIDE | Hamlet's plot in "Hamlet" |
| RESEARCHER | One unearthing facts about brand used by singer/actress (10) |
| TALPA | Thanks surrounding tips from Alec Leamus, presumably unearthing a mole |
| EXCAVATION | Unearthing a van with exotic wheels |
| BREED | Raise again in a plot in the garden |
| HOE | Cultivate a plot, in a way |
| DENOUEMENT | The final clarification or resolution of a plot in a play or novel (10) |
| BLOOMED | Flowered, it would appear, in a plot in the garden (7) |
| ABED | It's a plot in former bed (4) |
| ACRE | A plot in which race is involved |
| EXTRACT | Without a plot, in essence |
| GRIMSHAW | He threatened to leave Weatherfield as part of a plot in Coronation Street (4,8) |
| TODD | He threatened to leave Weatherfield as part of a plot in Coronation Street (4,8) |
| FERRET | From the Latin meaning "little thief", a relative of the weasel employed in unearthing rabbits or racing in tubes at country fairs; or, a diligent searcher (6) |
| UGLILY | Limits to unearthing flower in a bad way (6) |
| DIGGINGUP | Unearthing, when a tenant in an attic? (7,2) |
| HOLER | One doing some unearthing? |
| BARGAINHUNTER | One looking for something cheap, but unearthing rubbish (7,6) |
| PLUTONIUM | Pressure facing Bedfordshire town principally in unearthing missing radioactive metal (9) |
