Possible Clues:

• Temporarily stopping? Pa's abandoned exercising
• Taking advantage of some humus in garden
• Making the most of
• Sailor cleared of swearing and taking drugs
• Exploiting when having in one's employment
• J. I. M. Stewart had a suggestion for thus employing riches
• Am left to be funny by taking advantage of
• Employing American in Gateshead
• Exploiter's forte
• To turn the animal round, is having recourse to