| HOUSEHOLDER | Master of the house |
| MANOFTHEHOUSE | Master of the house |
| LES | "___ Miz" ("Master of the House" musical, for short) |
| LESMIZ | "Master of the House" musical, familiarly |
| HIMSELF | "Master of the house" in film he's directed (7) |
| UPSTAIRS | Puts off pretensions of the masters of the house (8) |
| ROLLS | Master of the ____, the head of the civil division of the Court of Appeal |
| TITIAN | Born near the foot of the Dolomites circa 1490, the Renaissance master of the Venetian school whose works include his seven-metre-high Assunta, Bacchus and Ariadne and the Danae series (6) |
| SIDNEY | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SHELDON | Best-selling author of novels such as Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight who also created the TV series I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart (6,7) |
| SIRISAACNEWT | Master of the Royal Mint at the start of the 18th century |
| POPE | Poet, Kit-Cat, Scriblerian, master of the heroic couplet and celebrator of the goddess Dulness in The Dunciad, whose villa in Twickenham, as seen in a painting by Turner, was demolished, leaving only |
| ATARMS | The Heroic Master of Weapons in HeMan and the Masters of the Universe, Man- (2-4) |
| WEIR | Composer of A Night at the Chinese Opera who was appointed Master of The Queen's Music in succession to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in 2014 (4) |
| LBJ | Subject of the Pulitzer-winning bio "Master of the Senate" |
| BLISS | Composer whose first official duty as Master of the Queen's Music was writing the Processional for the coronation (5) |
| RAPHAEL | With contemporaries including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, master of the High Renaissance who painted The School of Athens (7) |
| ISAAC | Forename of either a master of the mint who discovered gravity, a vegetarian teetotaller who invented a system of shorthand or an actor who invented a sewing machine (5) |
| HEMAN | ___ and the Masters of the Universe popular animated series of the 1980s: Hyph. |
| MEGFOSTER | Actress whose roles include that of Evil-Lyn in the film version of Masters of the Universe |
