| TRUMAN | Maybe turn out a master or president |
| ORIGINAL | A master or prototype from which copies can be made; a work created personally by a particular artist, musician or writer; or, a made-to-measure designer garment |
| BEAK | Word for a bird's bill, a human's nose, a squid's mouthpart or a turtle's jaw that is also long-standing public school slang for a master or teacher (4) |
| AMORAL | A master or a learner lacking in ethics (6) |
| FIRSTDEGREE | Further education before a master's or doctorate (5,6) |
| GRE | Possible hurdle for getting a master's, or short |
| PROFESSOR | University academic of the highest rank; or, a title assumed by a charlatan, dancing-master or a Punch and Judy puppeteer (9) |
| TESTER | Historically, a person employed to prove the innocuousness of food by eating it before serving it to their master or mistress; or, a little cup for a person who is sampling wine (6) |
| TERM | Period for a prisoner or president |
| TRANSLATE | Maybe turn to French trains: one’s missing, delayed! |
| ENCODE | Maybe turn to Morse? |
| REED | Instrument does maybe turn around |
| TEATASTER | An Assam aficionado, Ceylon connoisseur, Earl Grey expert, matcha master or other professional critic, judge, sampler or tester of brewed, infused or steeped loose-leaf cha (3,6) |
| MATERDOLOROSA | Old, old master, or a new work of art |
| SAN | Sir or master or sahib in Japan |
| DONALDTRUMP | Act over devastated land - time for right turn politician - or president! (6,5) |
| LDR | Queen or president: abbr. |
| HOOVER | Dam or president |
| VICE | Word that can precede squad or president |
| IAL | Suffix for senator or president |
