| AIRVICEMARSHAL | Flying officer broadcast bad habit to control (3,4-7) |
| OPTICALILLUSION | Topical broadcast, bad American one, about something deceptive (7,8) |
| DISALLOW | Police officer broadcast about everyone in bar (8) |
| VICEPRESIDENT | Deputy gives bad habit to quiet inhabitant (4,9) |
| VOICE | Bad habit to conceal love for state (5) |
| AIRCHIEFMARSHAL | Senior officer's broadcast on leading Roman poet, say |
| KERNEL | The nub of military officer's broadcast (6) |
| THEMOSTPERFECT | 2016 book on birds' eggs by Tim Birkhead (3,4, 7, 5) |
| SQUADRONLEADER | Flying officer 'S'? He's superior in rank |
| HOUSEOFWINDSOR | Royal family habit to be protected by foot soldiers following Tornados (5,2,7) |
| UFOS | Flying Officer probes American flying saucers (4) |
| UFO | Blip on radar starts to unnerve flying officer (3) |
| FORESTS | A Flying Officer doesn't work in woodlands! (7) |
| FORESAW | Swear angrily after Flying Officer knew beforehand (7) |
| FOUNDER | Flying Officer reporting to an architect |
| AIRMARSHAL | Flying officer's demeanour harms prince (3,7) |
| WAYWARD | Naughty habit to pull back (7) |
| ACCUSTOM | Sounds like a habit to get used to |
| OFFBASE | Mistaken (informal) (3,4) (7) |
| BATES | Author of the Pop Larkin chronicles including The Darling Buds of May who, prior to this, during the Second World War wrote as Flying Officer X (5) |
