| BLOCKADE | Cutting a place off by surrounding it with troops or ships |
| BLOCKADES | Actions to stop goods or people reaching places by surrounding them, usually with troops or ships (9) |
| ISOLATE | Cut a place off from the surrounding area |
| GRAVITY | Importance of surrounding it with sauce (7) |
| ECHELON | Derived from the French for rung or ladder, a step-like body of aircraft, troops or ships also used to describe birds in flight or a peloton in crosswinds (7) |
| REVIEW | A display and inspection of troops or ships (6) |
| MOUSER | A farm or ship's cat charged with hunting murine gnawers, squeakers or timorous beasties; a mog proficient at catching rodents generally; a prying person; or, in Scotland, a man's whiskers (6) |
| ETAPE | French word for a day's march, a storehouse, rations issued to troops or a stage of a cycle race (5) |
| CORPORAL | Word for "head", hence a soldier in charge of a body of troops; or, a leader of a gang of miners (8) |
| ENCLAVE | Place or group different from those surrounding it (7) |
| STEADING | From the Old English for "place", word for a farmhouse and the range of outbuildings surrounding it (8) |
| AIRDROP | Delivery of troops or supplies by parachute from a plane to an inaccessible place (3,4) |
| ARMY | A highly organised body of land troops; or, by extension, a multitude of ants, people, Salvationists etc working toward the same purpose (4) |
| AIRLIFTS | Transports of passengers, troops or supplies by helicopter or plane, especially in an emergency or blockade (8) |
| PLEASURE | With fields surrounding it, is pure delight (8) |
| PHALANX | A body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation (7) |
| RETREAT | Withdrawal of troops or a place of meditation |
| DETAIL | A small unit of troops or police officers given a special duty (6) |
| VENUE | Meeting place off a road (5) |
| GONETHERE | "I've crossed that place off my list" (4,5) |
