| LETITALLHANGOUT | "Relax!" laughed the officer (in the modern vernacular) to the lads on the Siegfried Line! (3,2,3,4,3) |
| OILMEN | Crude to go to the lads for the sheikhs with money in Arabia (6) |
| OLDASTHEHILLS | Ancient order distracted lads on The Hill in front of Dubs at last (3,2,3,5) |
| DEMOTIC | Modern vernacular form of the Greek language, distinguished from the archaic and literary katharevousa (7) |
| RANGERS | The saint left the strangers with the officers in the park (7) |
| AGIN | Vulgarly, in the vernacular, to be not in favour of what looks like an alcoholic libation! (4) |
| MAGINOT | Not the Siegfried line of defence |
| LAMED | Half the lads, on average, are crippled (5) |
| WESTWALL | Siegfried Line of 1930's Germany |
| BOYSCOUT | One's away camping with the lads on cape, not at home |
| SCANDAL | To scrutinise the lad on return is injurious to the reputation (7) |
| IDYLL | Richard Wagner's symphonic poem presented to his wife Cosima on the birth of their son, the Siegfried ... |
| THEOCRATIC | The officer in charge preceding disloyal person in command, claiming divine authority (10) |
| COMPILED | Collected the material from the officer in charge and limped out (8) |
| AMATURUS | A lad on the point of falling in love (fut participle) |
| ASSOUNDASABELL | Varied lads on a U.S. base left in excellent condition (2,5,2,1,4) |
| ISSUS | Ancient settlement in the modern Turkish province of Hatay associated with a battle in which Alexander the Great defeated Darius III in 333 BC |
| HINGIS | Tennis: Who holds the record for the youngest person to win a Grand Slam singles title in the modern era (Australian Open 1997 aged 16 years, 117 days)? (6) |
| BENYEHUDA | Lexicographer who was the driving spirit behind the revival of spoken Hebrew in the modern era (1858-1922) |
| RUSSO | Riccardo, a GP points-scoring rider in the 1970s who has a namesake racing in the modern era. (5) |
