| SKYPE | Call island hosting head of production (5) |
| PERM | Give a wave to government leader hosting head of state (4) |
| CORSET | What French call island square for tight-knit body (6) |
| TASMANIA | Island hosting 2019 World Fly Fishing Champs (*I am Santa!) (8) |
| OVERLAYS | Covers, but hams it up ignoring head of production (8) |
| AFAIRCOP | The game's up, shelving one fine romance with firm's Head of Production (1,4,3) |
| ATHLETIC | Sporty sort of Greek hosting heads of Hungary, Latvia and Estonia (8) |
| ALSACE | Home of Kronenbourg beer hosting heads of Stella Artois and Carlsberg (6) |
| BELFAST | Local football hero hosting heads of local football association (7) |
| STEEL | An alloy for which Sir Henry Bessemer developed a method of production at low cost; a sword; one of a corset's "bones" ; a honing rod; or, figurative hardness or strength (5) |
| PLANT | Growth of production? (5) |
| ASSAM | Brewed beverage named after its place of production in India (5,3) |
| SEIZE | "___ the means of production" (text on many Marx-inspired memes) |
| ECONOMIC | Of the system of production and management of material wealth |
| SETASIDE | The policy of taking land out of production to reduce crop surplus (3-5) |
| DIRECTOR | Controller of production and member of a board (8) |
| ASSEMBLYLINES | Gathering tall stories about new areas of production (8,5) |
| BOURGEOISIE | Owners of the means of production |
| PERIODDRAMA | A pro admired for reworking a type of production (6,5) |
| SUPPLY | ... chain, the sequence of production and distribution of a commodity |
