| COCKEREL | Mister Bird, clerk, in trouble with CEO |
| CORMORANT | Funny cartoon with Mr Bird |
| TESLA | Company associated with CEO Elon Musk, who sent flowers to his mother in Mumbai. (5) |
| ACCEDETO | To go along with CEO, acted corruptly (6,2) |
| OFCOURSE | Playing fours with CEO surely |
| VASSALL | John ___, a clerk in the British embassy in Moscow, coerced to spy for the Soviets in the 1950s (7) |
| PENPUSHER | Clerk in enclosure with court official keeping quiet |
| FRECKLE | Arrangement for clerk in France and Spain in light spot (7) |
| MAP | Clerk in the court of Henry II whose miscellany De Nugis Curialium (Courtiers' Trifles) was translated by medievalist and antiquarian ghoststory writer M. R. James in 1923 (3) |
| URIAHHEEP | Villainous law clerk in Dickens's David Copperfield whose name is synonymous with sycophancy (5,4) |
| WAC | Cartography clerk in WWII, perhaps |
| HEEP | Cunning clerk in "David Copperfield" |
| NICODEMUSBOFFIN | Illiterate, goodhearted clerk in Our Mutual Friend |
| OWED | No clerk in lower deck is outstanding (4) |
| CASHIER | Bank clerk in middle of stick-up, looking greyer (7) |
| CRATCHIT | Bob ___, Scrooge's long suffering clerk in A Christmas Carol (8) |
| URIAH | & 2D, Clerk in 1850 Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield (5,4) |
| PROTONOTARY | Chief clerk in some law courts (Historical) |
| BABOO | Clerk in India given about a bob, nothing more (5) |
| RADAR | Company clerk in M*A*S*H (5) |
