Come down on workers and their offspring? (11)

I believe the answer is:

descendants

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'offspring?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'come down on workers' is the wordplay.
'come down' becomes 'descend' (synonyms).
'on' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'workers' becomes 'ants' (worker ants).
'descend'+'ants'='DESCENDANTS'

'and their' acts as a link.
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(Another definition for descendants that I've seen is " Grandkids, e.g.".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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