| SECRETARY | An administrator of an office or the day-to-day business of a board or company; or, an escritoire (9) |
| CHARTER | Document incorporating a bank, university or company; or, the hire of a private jet or yacht (7) |
| REEVE | In Anglo-saxon England, an administrator of a shire or burgh (5) |
| RANFOR | Sought, as an office or the hills |
| LANDAGENT | Tangled with an enigmatic administrator of an estate (4,5) |
| BALL | Spherical dahlia similar to the pompom variety; the founder with Farrow of a paint company; or, an object used in various sports (4) |
| DESK | An escritoire is a type of what? (4) |
| OPENS | Starts the day, business-wise |
| REEBOK | Sportswear company, or an antelope (6) |
| GLADLY | Truly before Sweetly wedding day business (6) |
| FLOAT | Cash used by shopkeepers to provide change at start of the day's business (5) |
| ORDERPAPER | On which the day's business is prepared, or otherwise (5,5) |
| CARER | A person responsible for the day-to-day well being of a family member with a long-term illness or in |
| DRAPERY | Depiction of folds of clothing or cloth in painting or sculpture; hangings; textiles collectively; or, the business of a fabric-seller (7) |
| SOLITAIRE | Game also called patience or one played with marbles/pegs and a board; or, a single diamond set in a ring (9) |
| BUREAU | Word whose meaning evolved from the humble red baize covering a writing table to mean the very escritoire itself and, finally, the office or government department with such a desk (6) |
| TENURE | The possession or holding of an office or position (6) |
| ADMIN | Informal term for the day-to-day oversight of a business |
| DREAMS | Phantasmagorical oneiric reveries, such as the apparent unobtainable fantasies of opium pipe smokers or the day visions of wool-gatherers (6) |
| DRAWINGPIN | A short, broad-headed tack for fastening papers or pictures to a board or wall (7,3) |
