| POSTREFORMATION | Send on deployment of troops, say, following Thirty Years War? |
| TWODIMENSIONAL | Idealism won't, on deployment, be without depth (3-11) |
| STARTAWAR | Send in troops, say |
| MORALE | Confidence seen in troops, say, or in a man (6) |
| WESTPHALIA | Peace of ___ , series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 (10) |
| WHITE | Battle of -, conflict of November 1620 near Prague in the Thirty Years' War (5) |
| MOUNTAIN | Battle of -, conflict of November 1620 near Prague in the Thirty Years' War (8) |
| PHILIPIII | King who led Spain into the Thirty Years' War |
| FREIBURG | Thirty Years' War battle fought over three days in August 1644 (8) |
| TROUBLES | The...thirty years war that was much closer to home? (8) |
| MUNSTER | Thirty Years' War treaty site |
| BOHEMIA | Thirty Years War participant |
| OSNABRUCK | City in Lower Saxony where a treaty was signed ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648 (9) |
| CRAVAT | Clothing item named from being worn by Croats in the French army during the Thirty Years' War |
| CHESS | Combative deployment of men on board |
| WAVER | Quail say, following first of wrens |
| SHAKEINONESSHOES | Show dread of Arab leader, say, following one |
| DISCARD | Get rid of second joker, say, following inspector (7) |
| NEMNED | Kelly, say, following return of chaps called once |
| ATTENBOROUGH | Wildlife presenter in Croydon, say, following when the evening news is on (12) |