| TORIES | Thatcher's party |
| PUB | The Thatchers Arms, for one |
| ROOFS | Workplaces for thatchers |
| CIDER | Strongbow or Thatchers, e.g. (5) |
| IFYOU | Thatcher's challenge to the Conservative Party conference in 1980? (3,4,2,3,4,2) |
| WANTTO | Thatcher's challenge to the Conservative Party conference in 1980? (3,4,2,3,4,2) |
| YOUTURN | Thatcher's challenge to the Conservative Party conference in 1980? (3,4,2,3,4,2) |
| REEDS | Wetland grasses with hollow stems providing materials for thatchers and habitats for birds such as marsh harriers and bitterns (5) |
| ATTAP | Leaves for Thatchers aiming to taste apple products primarily |
| ROSINED | Other half of Thatchers Gold upended - sticky |
| CALTHA | A genus of plants, also called marsh marigolds, kept by local thatchers (6) |
| ROOFERS | Word for slaters, thatchers, tilers or other builders of tectiform structures; letters of thanks for hospitality; or, dare-devils who scale skyscrapers (7) |
| IRONLADY | Margaret Thatcher's sobriquet |
| LADDERS | Runs in Margaret Thatcher's stockings |
| MARGARETSPEG | Thatcher's wooden pin? |
| WETS | Thatcher's victims boil over (4) |
| SOCIETY | Thatcher's a nonentity (7) |
| ROOFING | Thatcher's job |
| REED | Thatcher's material heartlessly delivered |
| STRAW | Thatcher's essential blemishes recalled |
