| MAKEAMESSOFIT | Bungle general instruction to a sapper to order convulsive attack (4,1,4,2,2) |
| QUEST | Hobbits' journey: ask for Sapper to be excluded? (5) |
| DIRECTIVE | A general instruction to be recited by four Romans (9) |
| RETRACT | Withdraw, with the Sappers, to a stretch of country (7) |
| EVERMORE | Always move different sappers to protect the Queen (8) |
| RARE | It's not common for the Gunners and the Sappers to appear together (4) |
| STANDINGORDER | Instruction to a bank to pay a stated sum at regular intervals (8,5) |
| BUNTSERIOUSLY | *Batting coach's instruction to a lackadaisical hitter? |
| ANDREWMARVELL | 17th century English poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions to a Painter (6,7) |
| ONDAATJE | Author of a novel centred around the lives of a nurse, a sapper, a thief and eponymous "English" patient (8) |
| PERIL | As a sapper, I like to be involved in danger (5) |
| MACABRE | Mum took a taxi with a sapper - that's weird! (7) |
| PAPERS | A sapper is discharged and has the documents to prove it (6) |
| COMMAND | Military division for which an officer is responsible; an invitation from the Queen; or, a directive or instruction to a computer program to perform a specific task (7) |
| SHAMPOO | Derived from a Hindi instruction to a masseur to "press", a liquid cleanser for the hair (7) |
| BLOWIT | Instruction to a glass maker, maybe, getting to bungle something? (4,2) |
| MINER | A sapper who lays explosives in tunnels; a collier; or, an animal/insect that galleries into the earth/leaves (5) |
| DEGRADE | Gradually moved back claiming a sapper is lower in rank (7) |
| IDARESAY | Probably I had a sapper speak (1,7) |
| REMISS | Negligent young girl is after a sapper (6) |
