| SERVICEMAN | A waiter in the forces? (10) |
| NAAFI | What acronym is given to the catering organisation in the forces? (inits)(5) |
| MANUEL | Fellow fit, say, to be famous Spanish waiter in the 1970s (6) |
| THIEF | One's in the force? You'd hope not! |
| SITHPRETTY | Good-looking, for someone on the dark side of the Force? |
| BLUEMURDER | The worst type of carnage in the force produces an awful outcry (4,6) |
| POEDAMERON | Resistance pilot in "The Force Awakens" |
| SABLES | Hotel Lac des ___ (Where Duddy worked as a waiter in Sainte-agathe-des-monts in Mordecai Richler's 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) |
| MADAME | Addressee of a waiter in a French restaurant |
| AGGRESSION | Government organises indiscriminate use of armed forces? (10) |
| COOPERATED | Cook curtailed messy red tape and joined forces? (10) |
| NOMANSLAND | An area for women only between hostile forces? (2,4,4) |
| ARM | Member ___ of the forces? (3) |
| DESERVE | Be entitled to leave the forces? (7) |
| SERVINGONESTIME | Working for a number of years in the forces, or in prison (7,4,4) |
| NATIONALSERVICE | Vicars in one tale rearranging compulsory time in the forces |
| JOININGUP | What's the welder doing? Enlisting in the forces (7,2) |
| POSTALORDERS | What the men of letters gave waiter, in a manner of speaking, were once written out in exchange for notes (6,6) |
| NOTABLE | Celebrated remark by the waiter in a packed restaurant! (7) |
| BEARARMS | Serve in the forces, as chap in T-shirt may have, say |