| COLONEL | Army officer, junior to a brigadier, senior to a major (7) |
| CAPTAIN | Officer of the army holding a rank junior to a major but senior to a lieutenant |
| COLONELCY | The rank of the air officer junior to a brigadier (9) |
| ADMIRAL | Flag officer in a navy junior to a vice admiral (7) |
| EARLDOM | Lands belonging to a noble senior to a viscount |
| CORPORAL | Noncommissioned officer junior to a sergeant in the army (8) |
| LIEUTENANT | Military officer junior to a captain (10) |
| OLYMPIC | Of or relating to a major sanctuary of Zeus (7) |
| ONESTAR | What a brigadier general wears (2 wds.) |
| MAJORGENERAL | Rank in the British Army immediately senior to a brigadier |
| NILOTIC | Relating to a major African river |
| RHENISH | Relating to a major European river |
| SANJOSE | City in California's Santa Clara Valley, home to a Major League Soccer team, the Earthquakes (3,4) |
| AIRCOMMODORE | Senior RAF officer of equivalent rank to a brigadier in the Army (3,9) |
| GROUP | and 18 Officer holding commissioned rank in the RAF who is senior to a wing commander junior to an a |
| GROUPCAPTAIN | RAF officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore (5,7) |
| COMMODORE | Royal Navy rank between captain and rear admiral, equivalent to a brigadier in the Army (9) |
| REARADMIRAL | Flag officer in a navy junior to a vice admiral (4,7) |
| WINGCOMMANDER | A senior officer in the RAF, junior to a group captain (4,9) |
| SERGEANT | In the UK, rank of police officer senior to a constable and junior to an inspector (8) |
