| AUCONTRAIRE | A recruit on a manoeuvre? Not at all! (2,9) |
| COUNTERFEITED | Becoming a forger could put recruit on feet! (13) |
| COUNTERFEITER | Becoming a forger could put recruit on feet! (13) |
| BUNT | Baggy centre of a sail or net; a push with horns; a gentle tap of a pitched baseball; or, a manoeuvre in which a pilot draws a half circle in the sky (4) |
| LOOP | A coil in string or yarn; a picot; a jubilee clip; or, a manoeuvre in which a plane describes a circle in the air (4) |
| FLICKON | In sport, a manoeuvre in which a player receives an incoming pass and moves it on quickly with a gentle header or kick to another player (5-2) |
| PLOY | A cunning plan to gain advantage; a manoeuvre or gambit in a game or conversation; or, a hobby, job etc with which one is occupied (4) |
| SPROG | From either "frogspawn", dialect for "lively young man" or a confused word for "cog", RAF slang for a recruit; or, an informal term for a child (5) |
| GETTOTHEPOINT | Memo to a U.S.M.A. recruit |
| ENROLS | Starts to enlist new recruits on list, say (6) |
| MOSES | Fellow issuing commandments could lose some recruits, on reflection |
| HEIMLICH | Henry J ___, American surgeon after whom a manoeuvre for dislodging a foreign body in a person's windpipe (8) |
| UTURN | A manoeuvre made by a vehicle resulting in a reversal of direction (1-4) |
| ASKARI | Soldier takes a risk with a manoeuvre (6) |
| NAUSEATED | Sickened, formed a dent with a manoeuvre (9) |
| TACTIC | A manoeuvre to achieve a specific goal (6) |
| ALKALOID | Do a kill, a manoeuvre using morphine (8) |
| RAWER | Less experienced, as a recruit |
| RAW | Like a recruit with supporting soldiers |
| NEW | Like a recruit |
