| HEADGARDENER | Part of the body working on the ground is in overall charge of the seed money (4,8) |
| ONSIDE | Half the ground is in state to continue playing |
| NERVOUSSYSTEM | Uneasy organisation - but it keeps the body working! (7,6) |
| FUNDS | Provides the seed money |
| TRADEUNIONS | Unusually rated academic body working with society - and workers' groups (5,6) |
| STAGEMANAGER | One in overall charge of flats etc? (5,7) |
| KEYGRIP | Member of a film crew in overall charge of lighting and camera equipment (3,4) |
| INSEMINATION | Planting of the seed for people to support home game (12) |
| FILMDIRECTOR | One in overall control of the shooting (4,8) |
| EDIT | Be in overall charge of a newspaper |
| SUPERVISE | Be in overall charge of (9) |
| VENTUREMONEY | Seed money |
| BIRDSEYEVIEW | Every wise bid improved in overall perspective (5,3,4) |
| REALIST | Person with his feet on the ground is later up in the air (7) |
| MORRISDANCING | Traditional folk activity in which a squire is usually in overall charge (6,7) |
| MACE | An aromatic spice ground from the covering of the seed of the nutmeg tree (4) |
| CINCH | The man in overall charge has, for starters, piece of cake |
| SUPREMO | Person in overall charge in the highest degree almost, nothing more (7) |
| PARASITE | Airborne soldier on the ground is a hanger-on |
| FLOOR | Word for the base/bottom of a room that, in the sense "bring to the ground", is synonymous with baffle, defeat, flummox, puzzle, stump (5) |