| CLERK | A pen-pusher of course is in charge of administration (5) |
| EST | Controversial seminars course is in Latin (3) |
| MANAGINGCLERK | Coping with a pen-pusher, he works for the lawyer (8,5) |
| ASCRIBE | Attribute to a pen-pusher (7) |
| AMISS | A failure, of course, is wrong (5) |
| ROUGH | Where a bad lie, of course, is approximate? (5) |
| AISLE | Heads of administration in shtook, the french split down the middle |
| RATIO | Part of administration's relative magnitude (5) |
| GOING | Condition, of course, is fading (5) |
| INONE | The best score of course is 1-0 (2,3) |
| GREEN | Some of course is verdant |
| HASTY | High Speed Train cut by head of administration — line dividing on way north unnecessarily fast? |
| SCRIBBLER | Informal word for a hack, journo, pen-pusher or other writer; part of a wool-carding machine; or, Canadian dialect for a jotter or a notebook (9) |
| YESENIN | "In this life there's nothing new in dying. / But nor, of course, is living any newer" - last words of Sergei ____, written in his own blood |
| CLERKOFTHEWORKS | Industrial pen-pusher? (5,2,3,5) |
| BUTTON | Pusher of that of little value (6) |
| GREENKEEPER | A carer, of course, is one who's valued after a party (11) |
| CROWNCOLONY | Type of administration of a British overseas territory, such as Hong Kong before the 1997 handover to the Peoples' Republic of China |
| RECEIVERSHIP | Set's in a state of administration after financial failure (12) |
| BACKOFFICE | Part of a company made up of administration and support personnel (4,6) |
