| PTA | "The Master" director, familiarly |
| ORME | "The Puppet Masters" director Stuart |
| BUSHSR | 1970s CIA director, familiarly |
| AGNI | His name means "The Knower." In the Vedic tradition, he is the master of universe as well as the god of fire, sun, and lightning. Who is this? |
| MUSICIANSHIP | The skill of the master instrumentalist who didn't miss the boat? (12) |
| LENIN | Acclaimed 2017 biography subtitled "The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" |
| STREAM | The principal and the master confused by one source of the river (10) |
| HEAD | The principal and the master confused by one source of the river (10) |
| PITUITARY | The master endocrine gland, attached by a stalk to the base of the brain (9) |
| DAEMONS | The ___, 1971 Doctor Who story in which the Master poses as the local vicar, Mr Magister |
| IBSEN | Dramatist who wrote Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, The Wild Duck and, the reputed favourite of Sigmund Freud, The Master Builder (5) |
| SLAVE | The cylinder at the opposite end to the master one. (5) |
| BAUM | Author who anticipated the concept of augmented reality in his 1901 story The Master Key and also penned the Oz series of books (4) |
| SHELDON | Sidney, author of the novel The Master of the Game (7) |
| MAGENTA | Putting the master spy in the shade |
| MAE | The name on the master key (3) |
| UPPER | The hand of the master |
| HITCHCOCK | Film director (the 'Master of Suspense') (9) |
| MALADY | The master and mistress got the sickness (6) |
| IRWIN | Director Allen, the "Master of Disaster" |
