| LOBBIES | Seeks to influence public officials, etc (7) |
| LOBBYIST | Campaigner who works to influence public officials (8) |
| EFFENDI | Name a Turkish title of respect for government officials, etc (7) |
| LOBBIED | Solicited public officials (7) |
| TRYITON | What to do with new suit: seek to influence with audacity (3,2,2) |
| CROONER | Public official's first love is moving east to become singer (7) |
| BAILIFF | Public official's pledge whenever female's arrested |
| PSYOP | Military initiative that seeks to influence the enemy 's mind, informally |
| PRESSUREGROUP | People aiming to influence public policy |
| PROPAGANDA | Information intended to influence public opinion (10) |
| SPIN | A drive, doctored to influence public opinion (4) |
| REFUGEE | Person who desperately seeks to move from one nation to another (7) |
| REALIST | Word for a pragmatist, in contrast to a daydreamer, fantasist, romancer, stargazer or visionary; or, an artist who seeks to represent true life (7) |
| ENDORSE | Vendor seeks to accommodate sanction (7) |
| STIRRER | One who deliberately seeks to cause trouble (7) |
| ASPIRES | Seeks to attain, ... to |
| SHOWMAN | Hush, silly woman, he only seeks to entertain! (7) |
| WARMING | West preparing for combat -crisis 8 seeks to minimise? (7) |
| FERRETS | Seeks to identify the animals (7) |
| BLAGGER | One who seeks to obtain or achieve something by persuasive talk or plausible deception (7) |
