| SAMURAI | Arm with US bombs and first-class fighters (7) |
| ACE | First-class fighter pilot |
| THEHURT | 2008 movie by Kathryn Bigelow about a US bomb disposal unit in Iraq (3,4,6) |
| BIKINI | Black activist tailed car heading off for US bomb site (6) |
| LOCKER | 2008 movie by Kathryn Bigelow about a US bomb disposal unit in Iraq (3,4,6) |
| MILITIA | New limit and first-class return for the servicemen (7) |
| GUNWALE | Arm with head and a leg, but no tail, on part of ship (7) |
| MARBLES | To arm with such a blessed beginning, is what little boys love (7) |
| TRIGGER | Bouncer pins right arm with this? |
| INACAST | Like an arm with a fracture that needs to heal: 3 wds. |
| INVADED | Entered a country under arms with intent to subdue it (7) |
| MARXISM | Mix arms with a form of communism (7) |
| LAPILLI | Latin-based name for rock fragments ejected from a volcano, between volcanic bombs and volcanic ash in size |
| NANNIED | Gran sat on nitrogen bomb, and took care of some unrelated issue |
| AMBROSIA | Maria, so upset about second-class and first-class fare (8) |
| HARLOW | Rapper Jack with the hits "Whats Poppin" and "First Class" |
| RAICH | English sportsman who played football for Sunderland, Derby County and Hull City and first-class cricket for Derbyshire (5,6) |
| CARTER | English sportsman who played football for Sunderland, Derby County and Hull City and first-class cricket for Derbyshire (5,6) |
| ASIA | A second and first-class returns from the continent (4) |
| INGRATIATING | Double gin and first-class tart? Sickeningly smooth ... (12) |
