| DROVER | What was the occupation of Henry Lawson's character Harry Dale (6) |
| UPDIKE | John, U.S. novelist who created the character Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom (6) |
| THEFOURFEATHERS | Much filmed AEW Mason novel, with the character Harry Faversham (3,4,8) |
| STEPPENWOLF | Herman Hesse novel featuring the character Harry Haller (11) |
| BARBER | What was the occupation of Figaro (6) |
| SCRIBE | What was the occupation of one who copied out documents by hand? (6) |
| COALMINER | What was the occupation of the father of country singer Loretta Lynn? (4-5) |
| SOLDIER | What was the occupation of cartoon character Sad Sack? (7) |
| LAWYER | What is the occupation of fictional character Atticus Finch? (6) |
| NANNY | What was the occupation of Olive Brockwell, who was renamed Alice in a well-known poem by AA Milne? (5) |
| DUSTMAN | In a 1960 Lonnie Donegan hit, what was the occupation of his "old man"? (7) |
| SITINS | Protests involving the occupation of buildings (3-3) |
| TENURE | The occupation of incumbency |
| LOVE | "The occupation of the idle man, the distraction of the warrior, the peril of the sovereign," per Na |
| SAMUELADAMS | Author of the 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter that resulted in the occupation of Boston by the British Army (6,5) |
| ASTRONOMER | An anagram of "moon starer" reveals the occupation of the stargazers Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler (10) |
| CLOWN | What is the occupation of Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, better known as Krusty, in The Simpsons? (5) |
| SNOWJOB | Insincere and overwhelming talk is the occupation of the ski instructor? (4,3) |
| NURSE | What is the occupation of Sarah Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit? (5) |
| DROVING | The occupation of a mover of animals (7) |
