| DRAFTBOARD | Doctor behind directors, those formerly responsible for creating vets (5,5) |
| CREDITORS | Furious directors, those owed money (9) |
| UBOATS | Snake discovered in Utah on top of sump by those formerly in the sink business? (1-5) |
| OXYMORONS | Who finally axes shows behind director's back's introduced apparent contradictions |
| STYLIST | Person responsible for creating a distinctive visual image for a product or company |
| GULAG | Soviet department formerly responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps (5) |
| LORDCHAMBERLAIN | Chief official of the Royal Household, formerly responsible for the licensing of plays (4,11) |
| SOUNDEFFECTS | Blow the consequences, as they're responsible for creating noise and making a scene (5,7) |
| DILL | Under the weather behind director in herb garden (4) |
| SPIROGRAPH | Toy with a series of cogs for creating geometric patterns and designs (10) |
| HELMETHAIR | Leather him, furiously, for creating rigid bouffant? |
| RUBINSTEIN | Helena, entrepreneur born in 1872 noted for creating a cosmetics firm (10) |
| ARCIMBOLDO | Giuseppe __, a 16th century Italian painter best known for creating portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books |
| KARACHI | A rich doctor behind Ford in Pakistan (7) |
| GAMBOL | Lark lands doctor behind bars, it seems (6) |
| DRAFT | Doctor behind with a bit of paperwork (5) |
| DRE | Name the "doctor" behind Beats headphones. (3) |
| RHOMB | Doctor behind huge beast dropping in lozenge (5) |
| APLOMB | Self-confidence of a doctor behind Middle East organisation (6) |
| DRAFTDODGERS | They won't serve doctor behind with jammy biscuits (5,7) |
