| NINE | Proverbial reminder helping one to cut down on sewing (1,6,2,4,5,4) |
| SAVES | Proverbial reminder helping one to cut down on sewing (1,6,2,4,5,4) |
| INTIME | Proverbial reminder helping one to cut down on sewing (1,6,2,4,5,4) |
| ASTITCH | Proverbial reminder helping one to cut down on sewing (1,6,2,4,5,4) |
| BOBBIN | Something on sewing machine movin' up and down |
| HEURISTIC | Helping one to discover for oneself heir is cut out |
| AUTOMATION | One way to cut down on your strawberry-picking crew |
| SLACKEN | Want to get into the money and to cut down on work (7) |
| ELOPE | One way to cut down on wedding expenses |
| RETRENCH | Sappers take to a foxhole to cut down on expenses (8) |
| FOODPROCESSOR | It's stomach churning helping one to break up in kitchen (4,9) |
| RATION | Helping one to enter shop (6) |
| CURED | Was preserved food helping one to get better (5) |
| SPEECHTHERAPIST | Cheap set hipster adapted - helping one to communicate better |
| CHEESEGRATER | One of those employed in pizzeria to cut down on the Parmesan - Pecorino is better we hear (6,6) |
| SMOKELESS | Those trying to cut down on unhealthy habit do like e-cigarettes? (9) |
| USELESS | No good to cut down on consumption (7) |
| FACADE | Front-of-house to cut down on lighting and install air conditioning (6) |
| MERCILESS | Cruel way to cut down on politeness in Paris? |
| RATIONALE | Reasons to cut down on drink? (9) |
