Possible Clues:

• A printer's measure might qualify
• Give authority to, authorise
• Enable regiment to return with prisoner secured
• Authorise energy company to get name replaced by mid-November
• Give authority to a rising Middle East nation
• Sanction representative, old, visiting the jug
• One way to expand MP’s permit
• Enable me to return old whiskey in person? Just half!
• Make stronger, in a way
• Give the authority to Oriental politician - the one with debts