| TOWNCLERK | Yank is not the first working in court as an advisor to the corporation (4,5) |
| LAWRENCE | The Seven Pillars of Wisdom author painted by Augustus John who served as an advisor to Winston Churchill and later retreated to Clouds Hill in Dorset (8) |
| FOLEY | Which Aboriginal land activist, born in 1950 in Grafton, was an advisor to the Muirhead royal commission on Aboriginal deaths in custody? (5) |
| PULLIN | Yank is not at home to arrest (4,2) |
| ARBORETUM | Botanic garden a right nuisance to the Corporation |
| RESTRUCTURE | Make big changes to the corporation |
| RELIESON | Uses as an advisor |
| PROCTOR | University disciplinarian in favour of court as an alternative |
| PLEAD | Address a law court as an advocate (5) |
| ROVE | Karl who was an advisor to George W. Bush |
| SYMINGTON | Scottish engineer who built the first working steamboat, in 1802 (7,9) |
| COLDFRONT | Old Father, working in court, identified change in atmosphere (4,5) |
| REINVENTS | Is not the first to discover discharge in kidneys |
| ECONOMIST | Earth-saving eccentric is not the first in Milton Keynes? |
| PROTOTYPE | First working version (9) |
| ELIZABETHREID | In 1973, who became the first advisor to the Prime Minister on matters relating to women? (9,4) |
| PICKNMIX | The Jewel in The Crown is not the first to combine an assortment of sweets (4,1,3) |
| JOHNELLIOTBURNS | ____, the UK's first working-class cabinet minister (in 1905) later coined the phrase "The Thames is liquid history" |
| BOX | Christmas -; offerings or gratuity once given to staff on what was the first working day after Christmas, hence the celebrations observed on December 26 (3) |
| WILLIAM | Scottish engineer who built the first working steamboat, in 1802 (7,9) |
