| WHITEMAN | *The commissioner and impresario (8) |
| OMBUDSMAN | Commissioner and male chums from US entering sultan's territory |
| CURSOR | One of those on The Screen from Rising, Revenue Commissioners and old police force (6) |
| HENSLOWE | Elizabethan bear-baiter, diarist and impresario who co-founded or established former theatres including the Fortune, the Hope and the Rose (8) |
| SULLIVAN | Ed, U.S. TV personality and impresario noted for his long-running TV variety show (8) |
| HOGG | Surname of the commissioner in The Dukes Of Hazzard in the 1980s (4) |
| DOMESDAYBOOK | The record of a survey of the land of England carried out by the commissioners of William I in 1086 (8,4) |
| CALLTHESHOTS | Lead, like the commissioner of the NBA? |
| STIGWOOD | Who was the Australian-born impresario behind the music groups Cream and the Bee Gees, the theatre productions Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and the film Saturday Night Fever (1977)? (8) |
| SELIG | Bud who is the Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball |
| BUD | Selig who's the Commissioner Emeritus of Baseball |
| BEECHAM | Sir Thomas _; English conductor and impresario (7) |
| BOYLE | Cook said to be lawman and impresario (5) |
| ROBYNARCHER | Adelaide singer, writer and impresario E (5,6) |
| ALLEYN | Elizabethan actor and impresario who founded Dulwich College (6) |
| LLOYD | Andrew ___ Webber, composer and impresario (5) |
| WEBBER | British composer and impresario of musical theatre, Andrew Lloyd _ (6) |
| SAUNDERS | English theatre impresario best known for bringing The Mousetrap to the London stage in 1952 (5,8) |
| PTBARNUM | Circus impresario played by Hugh Jackman in the 2017 film The Greatest Showman |
| PROMOTER | Back-bencher behind impresario (8) |
