| SWEETHEART | --- deal, an agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual (10) |
| ESCROW | An agreement in which a third party keeps money or property until a contract is fulfilled (6) |
| NATIONALISATION | Process by which a private company or industry becomes owned by the state and controlled by the government (15) |
| ROSTRUM | A stage or dais on which a public speaker stands (7) |
| MATESRATES | Friends' reviews written in favourable terms |
| CRIESOFF | Withdraws from an agreement in which officers are involved (5,3) |
| LETON | Reveal a tennis term to a cricket side |
| INDULGENCE | Include different information in unduly favourable treatment (10) |
| ROSEATE | Unduly favourable, sanguine; flushed (7) |
| MONAMI | Friendly term, to a Parisian |
| JUDICIALREVIEW | Process in which there is a legal consideration of an action by a public body (8,6) |
| CAMBRIDGE | 1629 agreement in which English stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company pledged to resettle in New England |
| CHAPLAIN | Cleric or lay member of a religious group attached to a private chapel or ministering to an institution, ship, regiment etc. (8) |
| ELON | First name of the founder of SpaceX, a private company set up to enable the colonisation of Mars (4) |
| ENEL | Italian multinational manufacturer and distributor of electricity and gas, first established as a public body in 1963 |
| GEICO | Insurance company whose first letter stands for "government," though it's a private company |
| ODYSSEUS | Robot that landed on the moon in February 2024, marking the first moon landing by a private company |
| STRIKEHOME | To deal an effective blow, refuse to work in the house (6,4) |
| ENCLOSURE | The process of restricting access to traditionally common land or open fields to a private owner (9) |
| OFFICE | Post -; private company whose foundations date back to the GPO established by Charles II in 1660 (6) |
