| REITH | General manager (and later managing director) of the British Broadcasting Company who went on to establish it as the BBC (5) |
| BERG | Henning .... Stabaek manager who played for Blackburn Rovers between 1993 and 2003. later managing the club for 57 days (4) |
| SOLDENE | Emily ___, renowned 19th-century English singer, actress, theatre manager and, later, journalist (7) |
| ELWAY | Broncos' general manager (and former star) |
| LYONS | Founder and managing director of SS and Jaguar cars, considered by some as one of the finest automobile stylists of all time (5) |
| SEPOYS | Troops in the service of the British East India Company, who instigated the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (6) |
| TUSA | John ___, Managing Director of the BBC World Service from 1986-92 (4) |
| REPETITEUR | Member of an opera company who coaches the singers and accompanies them on the piano in rehearsal (10) |
| GITA | Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF |
| SHAMIT | Managing Director of the West Coast Partnership (6,6) |
| GAIGER | Managing Director of the West Coast Partnership (6,6) |
| KARRENBRADY | Vice-chairman of West Ham United and former managing director of Birmingham City |
| ANGASTON | Which town in the Barossa Valley was initially known as German Pass but was renamed in honour of the founder of the South Australian company, who settled there? (8) |
| LIVERYMAN | Member of a City of London Company who has the right of voting for Lord Mayor. sheriff. etc. (9) |
| KATESWANN | Former managing director of Homebase and chief executive of WH Smith |
| RAFFLES | A clerk in the East India Company who founded the modern state of Singapore (7) |
| LILIANBAYLIS | Who was a theatrical manager and the founder of the Old Vic as a centre of Shakespearean productions? |
| ROWLAND | Tiny, former chief executive and managing director of Lonrho (7) |
| HADRIAN | Managing Director of Walls ate raspberry ice-cream after nachos for starters |
| AVRO | British aviation company who also built cars briefly in the 1920s (4) |
