| MISCONDUCT | Immoral or unethical behaviour, especially by a professional person (10) |
| IMMORAL | Unscrupulous or unethical (7) |
| UNFAIR | Dishonest or unethical (6) |
| SHARPPRACTICE | Unethical behaviour Thackeray's Becky customarily indulged in ? |
| MALPRACTICE | Unethical behaviour: shaky camera clip capturing it at last |
| BRASSPLATE | Sign that a professional person is ready to do business |
| PROSTHESIS | Dissertation by a professional added limb (10) |
| DEGENERATE | An immoral or corrupt person (10) |
| CHARTERED | (Of a professional person) having attained certain professional qualifications or standards (9) |
| VICE | A type of clamp attached to a workbench; a behaviour considered immoral or wicked; or, a neurotic habit of a bored stabled horse (4) |
| DOC | A professional person has to act with a cool head (3) |
| SHINGLE | What is a small signboard of a professional person (7) |
| PAROLE | From "saying, speech", a term for a word of honour, especially by a POW; the conditional release of such a prisoner; or, a guard's password (6) |
| DIKTAT | A decree or settlement imposed, especially by a ruler or a victorious nation (6) |
| PRACTICE | Perfect-making business for a professional person (8) |
| ENGINEER | Contrive to become a professional person (8) |
| CLIENT | Customer of a professional person (6) |
| ALSORAN | A loser in a race or contest, especially by a wide margin (4,3) |
| ALLY | A government formally cooperating or united with another for a special purpose especially by a treaty |
| SERENADE | From "calm, clear, cloudless" and influenced by "evening, late", word for a song or tune performed in the open air at night, especially by a lover/suitor (8) |
