| SMITHERS | Waylon ___, executive assistant to Charles Montgomery Burns in The Simpsons |
| BURNS | Owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and Homer Simpson's boss, Charles Montgomery ... |
| INDEXNUMBERS | At first Montgomery Burns nixed unusual stats showing relative movement |
| WAYLONSMITHERS | C. Montgomery Burns' right-hand man |
| MONTGOMERY | Name of the state capital of Alabama, and of ruthless nuclear power plant owner Mr Burns in The Simpsons (10) |
| SHEARER | Harry ******* , comedian who voices Mr Burns in 'The Simpsons' (7) |
| MENJOU | Adolphe, actor who played Walter Burns in the 1931 film The Front Page (6) |
| JENNINGS | Waylon ___, American singer-songwriter, one of the founders of the Outlaw Movement (8) |
| UNITED | One evenly burns in the ads (6) |
| BALMORAL | Big Scottish home treatment for burns in the mouth (8) |
| BUSHFIRE | It burns in the Australian outback (4,4) |
| FLAME | It burns in the Olympic torch |
| SCALDS | Burns in the kitchen, maybe |
| SCUDAMORE | Richard ___, executive chairman of the F.A. Premier League since 2014, due to step down by the end of 2018 |
| SHEILA | Quiet executive assistant catches hold of the Italian woman in Sydney? |
| FIBRE | Thread starts to burn in the flames |
| TELLER | ...must be one who says there's money to burn in the bank! (6) |
| ASEASYASABC | It's really quite simple because executive assistant says to return first few letters |
| BIGIDEA | Grand scheme outlined in enormous documents provided by Executive Assistant |
| ERITREA | Might exhaust those travelling north with red-headed executive assistant in African country |
