| DIVAS | Commanders of the stage |
| RESSALDARS | Commanders of troops of Indian cavalry (10) |
| CAPTAINS | Commanders of ships; senior pilots; head boys/girls; or, leaders of clubs or sports teams (8) |
| ADMIRALS | The most senior commanders of fleets or navies (8) |
| SHOGUNS | Hereditary military commanders of feudal Japan (7) |
| GENERALS | Commanders of an army (8) |
| WADE | Commander of the troops sent into Scotland against the Jacobites who oversaw the construction of some 250 miles of roads and 40 bridges across the Highlands (4) |
| GENERALHAIG | Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of State or the commander of the British Expeditionary Force during much of the First World War |
| SLIM | Surname of the commander of the 14th "forgotten" army of the Second World War (4) |
| FLAGCAPTAIN | Commander of the ship carrying the admiral of the fleet (4,7) |
| DESERT | Nickname, used by his foes as well as friends, of the commander of the Afrika Korps during the Second World War (3,6,3) |
| FOX | Nickname, used by his foes as well as friends, of the commander of the Afrika Korps during the Second World War (3,6,3) |
| THE | Nickname, used by his foes as well as friends, of the commander of the Afrika Korps during the Second World War (3,6,3) |
| COOK | Commander of the ship Endeavour who set sail with his crew to Tahiti in 1768 to chart the transit of Venus across the Sun (4) |
| MACARTHUR | General Douglas who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the southwest Pacific during W |
| JELLICOE | John ___, British commander of the Imperial Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 (8) |
| ROBERTELEE | A commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War (6,1,3) |
| LYSANDER | Commander of the Spartan fleet that defeated the Athenians in the Hellespont in 405 BC (8) |
| MURDOCH | Iris ___, novelist made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1987 |
| FELICITYPALMER | English mezzo-soprano and music professor who was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011 |
