| TUTOR | Private teacher; instruction book; guardian; or, an officer responsible for an undergraduate's pastoral care (5) |
| QUARTERMASTER | An officer responsible for accommodation, food and equipment in a military unit (13) |
| EQUERRY | In the past an officer responsible for the royal stables |
| TOADEGREE | In some measure an undergraduate's progress (2,1,6) |
| TOSOMEDEGREE | How one might describe an undergraduate's progress in part? (2,4,6) |
| SUPERCARGO | Merchant navy officer responsible for what a ship is carrying (10) |
| PURSER | Ship's officer responsible for the accounts etc (6) |
| MASTERATARMS | Chief petty officer responsible for enforcing discipline on board a naval ship (6,2,4) |
| FIRSTLIEUTENANT | Naval officer responsible for a ship's upkeep (5,10) |
| WHIP | Officer responsible for political party's discipline in parliament (4) |
| BOATSWAIN | A naval officer responsible for a ship's equipment |
| COMMANDERINCHIEF | Officer responsible for all of a country's armed forces (9-2-5) |
| BOSUN | A warrant officer responsible for the maintenance of a warship & its equipment. |
| WRAITH | Word with misty origins, whether from a "guardian" or a "writhing" spirit, that has perfectly maintained its spooky atmosphere for some 500 years to refer to an apparition, ghost or spectral wisp (6) |
| LIEUTENANT | Word for "placeholder" which translates in Latin as "locum tenens"; or, an officer, such as the one washed ashore in a novel by John Fowles (10) |
| HERALD | A messenger; a harbinger; or, an officer of arms ranking between pursuivant and king of arms (6) |
| BLACKROD | Truncated title of a senior officer responsible for summoning MPs to listen to the Queen's Speech in the Lords during the state opening of Parliament (5,3) |
| USHER | Lady/Gentleman - of the Black Rod; full title of a senior officer responsible for controlling access to and maintaining order in the House of Lords (5) |
| SACRISTAN | Church officer responsible for sacred objects (9) |
| GUILT | Remorse, feeling responsible for an offence or action (5) |
