| FRONTOFFICE | Management department of a company, and a hint to the starred answers |
| BUSINESSPLAN | A detailed outline setting out the objectives and strategy of a company and its expected profits over a set period (8,4) |
| CINEMA | Theatre is in medicine-management department (6) |
| MAILROOM | Department of a company that deals with incoming and outgoing post (8) |
| HUMAN | ___ resources (personnel department of a company) |
| COREBUSINESS | Main focus of a company, and of the starts of 19-, 26- and 48-Across |
| AVALON | What word connects an island in the mythology of King Arthur, a TV production company and a song by Roxy Music? (6) |
| ABCLETELEVISION | Network merger between an American company and a French one? |
| OXO | Kitchen gadget company (and a bad tic-tac-toe line!) |
| DEBENTURE | Long-term security issued by a company and, in the UK, secured against assets, having a fixed rate of interest (9) |
| WARDROBE | Armoire; theatrical company's stock of costumes; department of a royal household in charge of clothes, jewels and robes; or, a ship's complement of sails (8) |
| ASSETSTRIPPER | Person who buys a company and breaks it up to sell for a quick profit (5-8) |
| PROMOTE | Start a company and upgrade the staff (7) |
| SCULLERY | From Old French for "bowl, dish" and Latin for "salver, tray, wooden platter", word first for the department of a household concerned with cookery utensils, later a small kitchen for the washing of sa |
| START | Soul Asylum "We could ___ a company and make misery" |
| EXCHEQUER | The accounting department of a national treasury, responsible for receiving and issuing funds (9) |
| ABLESEAMEN | Naval rating of the deck department of a merchant ship (4,6) |
| SECRETARY | Head of an administrative department of a government |
| EMAIL | Message that's probably from the marketing department of a shop you last visited in 2015 |
| HUMANRESOURCES | Numerous arches seen around department of a firm |
