| CASTE | Queens or soldiers |
| CATS | Stealthy clowder-, clutter- or pounce-forming mollies, queens or toms with retractable claws for mousing or playfully batting pompoms (4) |
| SWARMS | Clouds of gnats or other insects; colonies of honeybees migrating to new hives with their queens; or, showers of meteors (6) |
| COURTS | Collective entourage, households and retinues of kings or queens; or, the palaces of said sovereigns |
| THRONES | Elevated seats of kings, queens or popes; or, the third order of angels (7) |
| BORO | Queens or Staten Island, informally |
| BOROUGH | Queens or Brooklyn, for example |
| BEDS | Kings, queens, or twins, e.g. |
| PAIR | Two queens or two sevens |
| SASH | Accessory for beauty queens or Boy Scouts |
| FODDER | Feed or forage for a herd; a seed from which a clue is grown in a crossword; food to fuel imagination or figuratively chew on; or, soldiers, proverbially consumed by a cannon (6) |
| INNERBAR | Queen's or King's Counsel collectively |
| CANTEEN | Set of cutlery and its wooden box; or, a flask for campers or soldiers (7) |
| CORDON | A line of police or soldiers or a system of road-blocks to control passage into and out of an area (6) |
| SCARF | From Old French for "pilgrim's pouch or scrip", a word for an official or soldier's sash for carrying things originally, later for a length/square of cloth for the neck or shoulders (5) |
| MUTINY | Open rebellion by sailors or soldiers (6) |
| TROOPS | Groups of scouts or soldiers (6) |
| TANK | Container for fish (or soldiers?) (4) |
| CORDONS | Lines of police officers or soldiers (7) |
| TUNICS | Close-fitting police or soldiers' jackets (6) |
