| IRONSIDES | Edmund II's regiment of troopers |
| IRONSIDE | Edmund II's son tucking into very hard fish |
| PERSONAL | Particular contingent of troopers on alert (8) |
| ONEDGE | Third of troopers, say, retreat, upset and nervous |
| CORGI | Fellow soldier grabbing tail of trooper's dog (5) |
| PERT | That saucy look of Trooper Thomas (4) |
| STORM | One kind of trooper |
| GRENADIER | Member of the senior infantry regiment of the Household Division of the British Army (9) |
| MOSS | A green bed for a freebooting sort of trooper (4) |
| BUFFS | The -----, Royal East Kent Regiment, formerly the Third Regiment of Foot (5) |
| BLACKWATCH | The 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, created after the first Jacobite rebellion of 1715 (5,5) |
| COLDSTREAMGUARDS | Regiment of the British Army which has its home on the north bank of the River Tweed (10,6) |
| SCOTSGUARDS | Regiment of the British Army created in 1642 upon instruction of Charles I (5,6) |
| ARTILLERY | The A of RA as a regiment of the British Army (9) |
| GLORY | 1989 film telling the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War |
| STEALT | Stone each Lieutenant in Royal Regiment of Scotland bagged |
| SCOTSGREYS | Regiment of poets recited |
| COHORS | Properly, a courtyard; commonly, regiment of a legion |
| IMPI | Regiment of Zulu warriors (4) |
| LIFEGUARDS | Regiment of the Household Cavalry (4,6) |
