| ASTHEYSAY | "Or so the motto goes" |
| CNN | Channel launched in 1980 with the motto "Go live, stay with it, and make it important" |
| PERARDUA | "____ ad astra" RAF motto: go through hardship, aiming high |
| SECOMBE | Welsh comedian and singer "Sir Cumference", whose coat of arms motto, "GO ON", makes punning reference to his career (7) |
| ITISSAID | In the interests of leader's support behind old paramilitaries or so the story goes (2,2,4) |
| WRITTENUP | Composed and awake or so the story goes (7,2) |
| ERIN | It's showering in Ireland, or so the poet says (4) |
| TUTORS | He's a small Egyptian King or so the guardians say (6) |
| LANCERS | The Royal --; British Army cavalry regiment formed in 2015 with the motto "Death or Glory" (7) |
| BADEN | Lord --Powell; founder of the movement with the motto "Be Prepared" who wrote the nonsense song Ging Gang Goolie (5) |
| HONISOIT | ___ qui mal y pense; the motto of the Order of the Garter (4,4) |
| UCLAN | Students with the motto From the Earth to the Sun informally |
| HATFIELD | House in Hertfordshire built for Robert Cecil in 1611, home to the Rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I bearing the motto Non sine sole iris (no rainbow without the sun) (8) |
| TANK | An aquarium; or, an armoured vehicle used by the regiment with the motto "Fear Naught" (4) |
| YPENSE | The motto of the Order of the Garter (4,4,3,3,1,5) |
| QUIMAL | The motto of the Order of the Garter (4,4,3,3,1,5) |
| BRAVERY | Fidelity, _____ , Integrity, the motto of the U.S. government investigative agency the FBI (7) |
| LOSANGELESTIMES | Newspaper with the motto "Largest Circulation in the West" |
| BEPREPARED | What is the motto of the Scouts? (2,8) |
| NAUGHT | Fear -; the motto of the Royal Tank Regiment (6) |
