| WHITECOLLARWORKER | Professional or clerical salaried employee (5-6,6) |
| OFFICES | Where professional or clerical duties are performed (7) |
| AIREDALES | Salaried employee's last seen going to the dogs |
| PTO | Salaried employee's vacation: Abbr. |
| PAYROLL | Survey taken around Scottish town for salaried employees? (7) |
| YUPPY | Word descriptive of a foolishly incessant chatterer, a little dog or puppy with an annoyingly shrill or sharp bark, or, acronymically, a "young aspiring professional" or "young affluent parent" (5) |
| BARRISTER | Informally known collectively as a boast or a wiggery, a legal professional or advocate titled QC if they receive or take silk (9) |
| ROYAL | Rising non-professional or sovereign (5) |
| DOGCOLLAR | Canine or clerical accessory (3,6) |
| DOGCOLLARS | Loops forming couples for hounds; or, clerical neckbands (3,7) |
| PROVOST | senior academic or clerical advisor |
| ASCENT | An act of climbing; the hill, slope, walk etc thus scaled; professional or social advancement; or, moving back through time, as in ancestry (6) |
| NON | Prefix with professional or partisan |
| SEMI | Prefix for professional or circle |
| SYSTEMSANALYST | Professional or my stats any less unreliable? (7,7) |
| AMATEUR | Meaning "lover", an enthusiast, non-professional or dilettante (7) |
| INSTITUTION | Organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose (11) |
| ETHICS | Professional or moral standards |
| DRESSMAKER | Professional or hobbyist who might use tailor's chalk, pin cushion, seam unpicker, rotary cutter, thimble ... (10) |
| SALARIES | Fixed regular payments made by employers for professional or office work (8) |
