| SHAMIT | Managing Director of the West Coast Partnership (6,6) |
| GAIGER | Managing Director of the West Coast Partnership (6,6) |
| REITH | General manager (and later managing director) of the British Broadcasting Company who went on to establish it as the BBC (5) |
| TUSA | John ___, Managing Director of the BBC World Service from 1986-92 (4) |
| GITA | Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF |
| LYONS | Founder and managing director of SS and Jaguar cars, considered by some as one of the finest automobile stylists of all time (5) |
| KARRENBRADY | Vice-chairman of West Ham United and former managing director of Birmingham City |
| KATESWANN | Former managing director of Homebase and chief executive of WH Smith |
| PRINCIPALITY | Managing director from City loses head in Monaco (12) |
| JEHANGIR | Managing director of GoAir (3,5) |
| DAVID | NR's Managing Director of Digital Railway (5, 6) |
| WABOSO | NR's Managing Director of Digital Railway (5, 6) |
| JAMIEBURLES | Managing Director of Greater Anglia (5, 6) |
| ROWLAND | Tiny, former chief executive and managing director of Lonrho (7) |
| HADRIAN | Managing Director of Walls ate raspberry ice-cream after nachos for starters |
| RUNNINGBOARD | Managing directors on vintage car (7-5) |
| IONIA | In classical times, the central part of the west coast of Asia Minor (5) |
| EDGELEY | Junction where the Manchester to Buxton line joins branch of the West Coast Main Line south of Stockport (7) |
| BYU | The Cougars of the West Coast Conf. |
| GOA | State of the west coast of India (3) |
