| EMPORIA | Old name for a department stores |
| FORENSICS | Familiar name for a department using scientific methods to investigate a criminal matter (9) |
| HOMEOFFICE | A workroom in the house for a department of state |
| MANTLE | Old name for a cloak, thus a word for a covering, such as a cloud, a chimney piece, Earth's asthenosphere, a mesh bag around a gas lamp's flame or a snail's pallium (6) |
| WHEREDOYOU | Start of a question to a employee in the movie section of a department store |
| TMAX | Kodak black-and-white film brand whose name becomes a department store if you insert a J and append an X |
| ESCALATOR | A feature of many a department store involving a real cost |
| COALS | Embers ... and a homophone of a department store |
| PEA | Miniature cork ball in a whistle; old name for a bird in the genus Pavo known collectively as a muster; or, a podded vegetable whose original name was thought to be plural (3) |
| SEARS | Big name in department stores |
| EATON | Big name in department stores, once |
| EATONS | Big name in department stores until 1999 |
| JCP | Monogram for the founder of Penney's department stores |
| BREAKAGE | Debits for department stores |
| SOMMELIER | Department stores priest runs for one who waits (9) |
| ESCALATORS | Clumsy escorts around - in the manner of a conveyor of people in a department store (10) |
| SANTACLAUS | "I stopped believing in ____ when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." (Shirley Temple) |
| MOVINGSTAIRCASE | A magic investor's repaired feature in a department store? (6,9) |
| LAPFUL | Child, to a department-store Santa |
| MENSWEAR | Male clothing section in a department store (8) |
