| STAFFORDSHIRE | China 1 across that employees or directors have to let (13) |
| NETPROFIT | Difficulty for supply that employee will be clearing up (3,6) |
| BULLETINBOARD | Notices location where directors have been shot? (8,5) |
| PUBLICSERVANT | Government employee or appointee |
| SCRIPT | Cursive handwriting, or printed type in this manner; an orthography; or, an actor or director's copy of a film or play's dialogue or text (6) |
| RAGA | Clash "Rock the Casbah" line: "You have to let that ___ drop" |
| STET | What a waste, Tim - to have to let it stand! (4) |
| SITONONESHANDS | Suppress the employees or fail to take action? (3,2,4,5) |
| PTO | Summer vacation days for employees, or what each answer to the starred clues contains |
| TREADLE | Have to let read about something afoot (7) |
| KEYBOARD | Vitally important directors have a way to enter data |
| ILL | ___ have to let you know |
| BOARDROOM | Changing mood at the bar, or directors' meeting place (5,4) |
| MAGRITTE | In China one needed courage to be a surrealist |
| BOARDS | Stage directors have seats on them (6) |
| BOREDSTIFF | Heard directors have small quarrel, fed up (5,5) |
| DARTBOARD | Hurry - directors have become sporting target (9) |
| OLDVIC | London theatre whose directors have included Ralph Richardson and Matthew Warchus (3,3) |
| BOARD | Directors have daily meals with their accommodation (5) |
| OPRAH | With 14-Across: talk-show legend who put out a statement about 1-Across that said in part: "There wouldn't have been [her show] without [1-Across] being the first to prove that daytime talk and women |
