| GARRISON | Body of troops stationed in a town to defend it (8) |
| SPIONKOP | Battle site a shade outside capital in Oman, inducement required to defend it (5,3) |
| DISSERTATION | Part of study - to a certain degree, one has to defend it, of course (12) |
| NEEDIEST | Journalist that is stationed in retreat is most disadvantaged (8) |
| ESPRESSO | Stationed in east so push for strong drink |
| PALOALTO | Australian soldier stationed in quiet, mostly distant West Coast city |
| POORLYARGUED | Made a bad case for most of the drugs found at Paris airport and tried to defend it? (6,6) |
| REGIS | Word appended to the name of a town to indicate a royal association |
| SENTRY | One of the Queen's guards stationed in a box-like shelter at the entrance of Buckingham Palace (6) |
| EMBASSY | Building which is the official address of diplomats stationed in a foreign country (7) |
| ARATRUM | A plough; imprimere ____ muris, to turn a town to arable land (Horace Odes 1.16.20) |
| BATH | A town to get clean out of? |
| BASED | Stationed (in a place) |
| CONTINGENT | Body of troops that's good, stationed in one part of the world (10) |
| TAKE | Adopt the company policy and defend it strongly? (4,1,4,5) |
| BODYPOLITIC | State organisation - law officers mostly defend it (4,7) |
| CONQUESTION | "We've taken the city, but can we defend it?"? |
| HONCHO | Slang term for a person in charge, brought back to the US by servicemen who had been stationed in Japan (6) |
| UNIT | An organised body of soldiers stationed in munitions factory |
| SWISSGUARD | Body of soldiers stationed in the Vatican City |
