| INDUPERATORE | With a commander who's longer at the front — abl. sing. archaic form (vide eg DRN 5.1227, where acc.) |
| PADUA | Wher Petruchio wived wealthily |
| DIRECTORGENERAL | Straightforward officer eviscerated by commander who's in charge of the company |
| NIDORIS | Of vapour or steam, vide eg DRN 6.987, ____ odores |
| FUNERA | Obsequies, deaths, vide eg DRN 5.326, bellum Thebanum et ____ Troiae |
| THORACIC | Chesty deity with a commander-in-chief (8) |
| CICADAS | Unhappy with a Commander-in-Chief getting rejected for bugs (7) |
| AGE | "____ sis" come on please; "nunc ____" well now (eg DRN 1.265) |
| SLIPPEDDISC | Painful condition of record no longer at the top (7,4) |
| DEPARTED | No longer at the gate |
| APEX | Some chaps no longer at the top |
| LOSINGASTEP | No longer at the top of one's game |
| AHEAD | A commander at the front |
| ROBERTELEE | A commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War (6,1,3) |
| CAPTAIN | Officer of the navy who holds a rank junior to rear admiral but senior to a commander (7) |
| MLUD | Archaic form of address to male judges in the high court (1,3) |
| ICONOCLAST | Destructive person I study is a commander at the end (10) |
| DIOMEDES | Greek hero mentioned repeatedly in Homer's Iliad, a commander in the Trojan War (8) |
| OVATION | The lesser triumph victory procession of a commander in ancient Rome; or, by extension, prolonged enthusiastic applause |
| AGA | In Turkey, he's a commander, whichever way you look at it (3) |
