| ORCHESTRAL | Chart roles cast for a company of players (10) |
| ALTEREGO | Get a role cast for bosom buddy (5,3) |
| CIRCUS | From the Latin for "ring", a Roman arena for chariot races and gladiatorial combats; a round tent or big top for a company of acrobats and clowns; or, a rounded space in a town (6) |
| BEVY | One of the words for a company of otters or roe deer, or for a flock of doves, larks, quail or swans (4) |
| TRANSITIVE | Invite star cast for a term in grammar (10) |
| SIEGE | Form of beleaguerment practised in the art of poliorcetics; or, a word for a company of bitterns or herons (5) |
| MAGICSPELL | What a witch casts for a hex |
| CARAVAN | Depicted in several paintings by Edwin Lord Weeks, generic name for a company of travellers journeying across a desert; or, a camel trainA (7) |
| PINACOLADA | Nip back for a company car or something that's an alternative to a cosmopolitan in a coup? (4,6) |
| BANNERYEAR | Period of exceptional business for a company |
| DEALERSHIP | Franchise to sell for a company |
| STAND | A company of plovers; a grove of trees; a platform for a brass band; or, a vessel in a boot room or hall for umbrella's, shooting sticks, crops etc (5) |
| CAST | A pair of hawks flown together in falconry; a company of actors in a film or play; or, a swarm of bees leaving a hive (4) |
| TABLE | Slab for/with an inscription; one of the two halves of a backgammon board; or, a company of people seated for supper or a game (5) |
| COHORT | Word, from "garden, farmyard", for a legion's tenth, a company of soldiers, a band of warriors or other unit or group of people, strictly gathered in a hortus-like enclosed space (6) |
| ECONOMYRATPACK | Doppelganger cast for a lowbudget remake of 'Ocean's 11'? |
| SPELL | It can be cast for a period of time (5) |
| BIDEN | Recipient of the most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate |
| TROUPE | Company of players find Oxford University Press in redesigned station (6) |
| CASHCOW | Which business term describes a product that provides a steady source of income for a company? (4,3) |
