### Clue: To get round trouble, cut class with southern mates? (7)
### Answer: SAILORS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: mates
 AIL(to trouble;to afflict suffering on) **contained in**(To get round …) "sort"(a class;a type) **minus its last letter**(cut …) **plus**(with) S(abbrev. for "southern").
Defn: … on a ship, say.