Related Clues:

• One gives employment to you and me first (4)
• 'A thousand such would be only nine, if one comes to think about it (4)'
• One makes the effort to get about ten trees in bits
• Makes an effort to chop up about a ten trees
• A thousand of these are only nine as one employs them
• They come by the thousand to be the employers of nine
• If they come by the thousand there's only nine
• Takes drugs for Ulster's odd characters
• Finds work for
• Layers of wood
• Gets high, say
• Customs of the American Middle West
• Ponders initial loss by customs
• Habitually employs buses that fail to start
• Lover's letters leave us emphatically with value and purpose