Possible Clues:

• Take on (staff)
• Use English tactic trapping Frenchman
• Use eastern tactic to ensnare maiden
• Put to work by some representative, MP, loyalist
• Give 'em a business of some sort of use
• You'd make this work
• Find work for the end of 23 down
• Use me: pivotal to the stratagem
• Unoccupied? Look to replace time in occupation
• Hire me to turn up with device