| CORGIS | "My soldiers, my companions" (The Queen) (6) |
| SISTERS | Artemis' companions, the Pleiades, are also called the seven ... |
| AMPS | Where soldiers my be caught leaving special units (4) |
| MILITARYACADEMY | School for soldiers my CIA detail organised with army (8, 7) |
| WELLTODO | My companions and I intend to drink primarily, parting very loaded (4-2-2) |
| ASYOUWERE | In our easy bandying, my companions and I relax (2,3,4) |
| CORPORAL | Soldier, my friend, protects soldiers (8) |
| USHER | Escort the female after me and my companion (5) |
| HEARTS | 'O God of battles! steel my soldiers' ___' (Shakespeare Henry V (1599) |
| LAUREL | Hardy companion the bay tree (6) |
| TWITCH | Taunt a companion, the jerk! (6) |
| CORGI | My soldier's a favourite of the queen, perhaps |
| LOR | My soldiers line up at the front |
| STEEL | "O god of battles! __ my soldiers' hearts": Henry V |
| CORRIDOR | My soldiers must restrict free passage (8) |
| SHEPHERD | Hut contains parking for his companion, the agricultural worker (8) |
| CHAPERONE | Companion: the first man, perhaps, to hug royalty (9) |
| LOVEMATCH | Nothing dull with companion: the perfect coupling? |
| MANFRIDAY | Companion the narrator had in battle on island |
| BOSCH | Sounds like German smells companion, the old Dutch painter (5) |