| AFORTIORI | Citadel with excellent fencing or one with stronger premises |
| SWORDS | Steels for fencing or brandished in battle dances or pyrrhics; snouts of billfish or marlin; or, a tarot suit (6) |
| BOUT | A stint of strenuous exercise or overindulgence, for example; a contest or match in boxing, fencing or wrestling; a curve in the side of a violin; or, an attack of illness, such as flu (4) |
| SPITFIRE | A cannon or volcano, emitting flames; an iconic aircraft of the Battle of Britain; a model of Triumph car; or, one with a hot or explosive temper (8) |
| TIRAMISU | Is it a concoction with rum, or one with Marsala? (8) |
| CONDUCTOR | Man with baton or one with finger on the bell? (9) |
| CHAMELEON | Fickle type arranging meal with Enoch or one with Lamech |
| HAZEL | An often coppiced tree with withies used for fencing or hurdles and cobnuts for praline or nocello (5) |
| STRIP | Sequence of cartoons or pictures often accompanied by fumetti; a playing area for fencing; or, a footballer's kit with club colours (5) |
| ACROPOLIS | Athenian citadel with the Parthenon (9) |
| GREMLIN | Replace weekend in Russian citadel with German capital for a mischievous fairy (7) |
| DIALECTIC | Designed a citadel with first-class reasoning (9) |
| CHAMBER | Climb evacuated citadel with yellow light (7) |
| CHEF | General word for a professional cook, or one with a specialist role such as entremetier, garde manger, patissier, poissonier or saucier (4) |
| ABERRATION | In optics, a defect in a lens or mirror that causes the formation of either a distorted image or one with coloured fringes |
| CROP | A finial; a rider's short whip or one with a handle for hunting; a cultivated cereal, fruit, vegetable etc collectively; or, a season's yield (4) |
| GRUMPY | Word of imitative origin meaning cantankerous, churlish, crabby or cross; or, one with a crotchety disposition (6) |
| RHETORIC | Butler, say, or one with cold oratory (8) |
| JUNOESQUE | Younger aged shield-bearer never seeing king or one with regal bearing |
| OLDFOGEY | Derogatory term for an antiquated person or one with outdated notions (3,5) |
