| BUSBOY | In the US, an assistant waiter (6) |
| GRAMMY | In the US, an award for outstanding achievement in the music industry (6) |
| FLAPJACK | Word for a baked bar of oats and syrup in the UK, but for a pancake in the US; an apple-puff; a powder compact; or, in Suffolk, a lapwing (8) |
| SODA | Informal word for sparkling water; a compound in baking/washing powder, glass or soap; or, in the US, an ingredient in an ice-cream float (4) |
| HOUNDDOG | In the US, an animal used in hunting (5-3) |
| SHERIFF | In the US, an elected official in charge of law enforcement (7) |
| MAVEN | In the US, an expert |
| CORRAL | In North America an enclosure for horses or cattle, often round (6) |
| CURATE | An assistant to a parish priest in the Anglican church (6) |
| POTASSIUMBROMATE | Banned in many countries outside the US, an oxidizing agent used to strengthen dough |
| SECOND | A sexagesimal division of a minute; the "silver" place in a race; or, from "follow", a word for an assistant, such as that of a boxer, duellist or sixer (6) |
| RAIDER | Doubly right about an assistant being the attacker (6) |
| CLOUGH | Arthur Hugh -; author of the verse-novel Amours de Voyage who was an assistant to his wife's cousin Florence Nightingale (6) |
| MADCAP | Plan to get an assistant, it's crazy (6) |
| WATSON | Thomas A. -; an assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (6) |
| INTERN | Advanced medical student living in a hospital and acting as an assistant physician |
| WAITIN | Act as an assistant to a huntsman (4,2) |
| STOOGE | An assistant is one of three |
| NOHELP | Worthless, as an assistant |
| TENURE | Goal for an assistant professor |
