| GAMED | Unfairly manipulated, as the system |
| FIDELCASTRO | Fact soldier manipulated as revolutionary leader (5,6) |
| MASSAGED | Manipulated, as expense figures |
| RIGGED | Manipulated, as an election |
| PTOLEMAIC | The --- system was a theory which stated that the earth lay at the centre of the universe (9) |
| THREEESTATES | The system of hierarchical order by the clergy, nobles and bourgeoisie, such as in the Ancien Regime (5,7) |
| ETAG | What is the system originally developed by Transurban in the 1990s for use on the Melbourne CityLink |
| OILGAUGE | Greece reports judge - the one measuring the pressure rising in The System (3-5) |
| IMPERIAL | What was the system of weights and measures in use before the decimal system? (8) |
| SYLPH | Spirit of the air, as originating in the system of Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (c. 1493-1541) (5) |
| SORBITOL | A sugar alcohol synthesised from potato starch; classified in the system of E numbers as a humectant, and in chemistry by the formula C6H8(OH)6 (8) |
| PLANET | It goes round as part of the system (6) |
| FEUDAL | Like the 'System' of the Middle Ages |
| BUCK | ___ the system (flout the rules) |
| ENTD | Typed the data into the system [abbr.] |
| DEEPSPACE | Region beyond the system of the earth and moon |
| GED | *___ the system (exploited the rules) |
| EYEOPENER | Shock to the system, and what the start of |
| STEM | Stop the flow in the system (4) |
| BUDO | The system of the martial art (4) |
