| OFCOM | Regulatory body whose remit includes television (5) |
| BRITISHCOUNCIL | Body whose remit is "to build mutually beneficial cultural and educational relationships between the United Kingdom and other countries" |
| GRAN | Comedy writer whose work with Laurence Marks includes television sitcom Birds of a Feather (7,4) |
| MAURICE | Comedy writer whose work with Laurence Marks includes television sitcom Birds of a Feather (7,4) |
| EMITTER | New remit includes the empty radiator (7) |
| IRDAI | Regulatory body led by Ajay Seth, a retired IAS officer appointed as chairperson.(abbvr.) (5) |
| OFWAT | UK regulatory body |
| OFGAS | Former UK fuel regulatory body |
| VEGAS | Johnny ?, comedian born Michael Pennington whose credits include television sitcoms Dead Man Weds and Ideal (5) |
| ANKLE | Part of the body whose main section is known as the talocrural, or tibiotalar, joint (5) |
| THUMB | Part of the body whose technical name is the pollex |
| CHICAGO | U.S. auto-pollution regulatory body, briefly (1,1,1) |
| OFSTED | Acronym for English regulatory body for education (6) |
| AEC | Former nuclear regulatory body: Abbr. |
| RBI | India's central bank and regulatory body (abbr.) |
| ORR | Transport regulatory body (3) |
| WATCHDOG | Regulatory body (8) |
| BARCOUNCIL | Regulatory body for barristers in England and Wales founded in 1894 (3,7) |
| IPSO | UK's largest regulatory body for newspapers and magazines, established in 2014 (1,1,1,1) |
| SEBI | Regulatory body involved in crackdown on financial misconduct at Gensol Engineering and suspension of BluSmart operations.(abbrv) (4) |
