| Protracted |
LONG |
| Raised |
ELEVATED |
| Rescue |
SAVE |
| School principals |
HEADS |
| Senior officer's principal aide and confidant |
CHIEFOFSTAFF |
| Silent film comedy star, d. 1966 |
BUSTERKEATON |
| Stableman at a coaching inn |
OSTLER |
| Supreme god of ancient Greece |
ZEUS |
| Turf accountant |
BOOKIE |
| Unacknowledged barrier to career advancement |
GLASSCEILING |
| World War II flying bomb (V-1) |
DOODLEBUG |
