| SMARMY | Fawning Sergeant-Major before his employer (6) |
| ECON | Major before going to B-school, maybe |
| STOKER | He makes things hot for his employer (6) |
| USURER | His employer being out for half an hour, he"ll give a loan (6) |
| GOLDEN | What Midas had and his employer got when he left? (6,9) |
| STACEY | Walford resident to whom Martin Fowler proposed before his tragic demise (6,6) |
| SLATER | Walford resident to whom Martin Fowler proposed before his tragic demise (6,6) |
| NEARLY | Almost natural leader before his time (6) |
| STORKS | Computer animated adventure about a bird who needs to deliver a baby before his boss finds out (6) |
| PROBYN | Jeff, England rugby union prop capped 37 times before his retirement in 1993 (6) |
| EDWARD | King for 10 months and 21 days, before his abdication in 1936 (6) |
| BOYISH | Juvenile to start your own business in retirement before his develops (6) |
| PAROLE | Freeing of a prisoner before his or her sentence has expired (6) |
| MOSSAD | Eli Cohen's employers, before his execution |
| PSALMS | "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving" source |
| ONETON | Heavyweight Johnson's last letters before his school (3,3) |
| MARINE | Jack Ryan before his CIA days, for one |
| HANDSHAKE | What Midas had and his employer got when he left? (6,9) |
| SHIPOWNER | Black eye limiting naval officer with his employer? |
| VALET | Manservant who acts as personal attendant to his employer (5) |
