| HITCHHIKE | Strike and rebuke about right to beg for lift (5,4) |
| CRAVE | Warning about right to beg (5) |
| CASTIGATE | Players I confine to quarters and rebuke severely |
| DRESSDOWN | Having the garment reduced when you rebuke about (5,4) |
| STONECOLD | Rebuke about. Sound very sober (5,4) |
| HAILATAXI | Call for lift to applaud a tariff increase initially (4,1,4) |
| KEELHAULS | Drags over part of ship first and rebukes severely (9) |
| DEEPSOUTH | Race for lift adjoining public hotel somewhere near Mexico (4,5) |
| RESONATES | Rebukes about sporting nose rings |
| IRONEDOUT | Pressed to be on strike and settled the problem |
| SPLASHOUT | Hold forth about strike and be extravagant (6,3) |
| STANDFAST | Endure the hunger strike and remain unmoved (5,4) |
| WHITEBAIT | Stand controlling strike and catching live rising fish (9) |
| ELEVATORS | American word for lifts (9) |
| DEATHTOLL | When the climate strikes and people don't make it, we use these dreadful words to describe how many die. (5,4) |
| STRICTLAW | Three strikes and you're out, say |
| CASK | About to beg for a measure of liquor (4) |
| ENTREAT | Managed to enter at the end, but had to beg for it (7) |
| GOESBACK | Returns to beg for a sock to be darned (4,4) |
| DAMASK | Old woman to beg for fabric (6) |
