| TIDYINCOME | What the char earns for keeping the house in order? (4,6) |
| CEMENT | Similar to what's in 10 across keeping The House from falling (6) |
| RBI | What a slugger earns for a solo home run: Abbr. |
| MONEYFORJAM | Preserve, what one earns for it making little effort (5,3,3) |
| NEAR | Get close and earn for a change (4) |
| CHARNEL | The char, Nellie, worked in the house (7) |
| MASON | Author of the Inspector Hanaud novels including At the Villa Rose, The Prisoner in the Opal, They Wouldn't Be Chessmen and The House in Lordship Lane (5) |
| CHRISTINA | The char isn't working when I go in for her (9) |
| SOUNDENGINEER | Voice in Greene novel at the station is responsible for keeping the auditors happy (5,8) |
| GENERALELECTION | For putting one's house in order some will lose power with this (7,8) |
| BARLOW | Coronation Street teen who risked leaving the safe house in order to visit his sick father (5,6) |
| SIMON | Coronation Street teen who risked leaving the safe house in order to visit his sick father (5,6) |
| HORSEMAN | No harems designed for keeping the nags in check (8) |
| SHEET | Chief support for keeping the bed-linen in place? (5-6) |
| ANCHOR | Chief support for keeping the bed-linen in place? (5-6) |
| HANGER | For keeping the plain in suspense? (6) |
| RIOTACT | Legislation passed in 1715 for keeping the peace |
| TANK | Armoured vehicle used for keeping the fish in (4) |
| ISAIAH | "Set thine house in order" sayer |
| PRESBYTERY | Does this mean church leaders have house in order? (10) |
