| TILTAT | Attack in medieval fashion |
| REPULSE | Renown-class Royal Navy battlecruiser launched in 1916 and sunk in a Japanese air attack in 1941 (7) |
| FIGHTINGFIT | In vigorous health, combating attack in the ring? |
| COUNTERATTACK | An attack in response to an attack (13) |
| RAILING | In fencing, attack in good order (7) |
| RETALIATE | Attack in return for attack (9) |
| ASIA | Samurais attack in retreat held in continent (4) |
| PAROXYSM | Sudden attack in the afternoon, so X-ray somehow must be fitted in (8) |
| AMBUSH | Attack in the morning needs something to hide in? |
| GASLAMP | Attack in space seen in old-fashioned light (3,4) |
| SARIN | Nerve gas which was used in the Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 (5) |
| LAYINWAIT | Prepared to attack in hoard with central character in The Nigger of the Narcissus (3,2,4) |
| DOVER | Port in Kent; Caesar's first point of attack in the 55 BC invasion of Britain |
| HOME | An area or "den" where a player is safe from attack in games; a sanctuary for rescued cats/dogs; the inner table in backgammon; or, one's abode, birth country or family seat (4) |
| SKEWER | An X-ray attack in chess; or, a metal brochette, known in its miniature form as a cocktail stick (6) |
| MAUL | Attack in African country briefly stopped by leader in uprising |
| WORMHOLE | Sign of damaging attack in timber (8) |
| RUNABOUT | Organise an attack in small car (8) |
| SENTIN | Instructed to attack in tennis game (4,2) |
| FLECHE | A short running attack in fencing (6) |
