| TILTATWINDMILLS | Fight an imaginary enemy (as Don Quixote did) |
| TILT | ___ at windmills, as Don Quixote did (4) |
| BEATING | Fighting an imaginary enemy (7,3,3) |
| THEAIR | Fighting an imaginary enemy (7,3,3) |
| TILTH | Perhaps what Don Quixote did say at windmills, on farm (5) |
| TILTED | Novel title is key to what Don Quixote did at windmills (6) |
| SAWMILLS | Cutting plants, as Don Quixote once did on the plain (8) |
| MANCHEGO | Hard cheese from the same region of Spain as Don Quixote |
| ILLTURN | The action of an enemy, as Dick Whittington decided? |
| HOSTAGE | A person kept prisoner by an enemy as security (7) |
| REDBARON | Imaginary enemy of Snoopy |
| SPAR | A cleavable crystal such as calcite; a boxer's practice fight; an informal word for a close friend; or, a boom, mast, yard or other nautical pole (4) |
| RECAPITULATED | Soldiers yielded to enemy, as reported in summary |
| SERVETIME | Work for the enemy, as a prisoner might do (5,4) |
| LAYABOUT | Amateur appearing before a fight, an idler (8) |
| CONTEST | Fight an election (7) |
| ANTIBODY | A protein that the body produces to fight an infection |
| JUKEBOX | Hear member of aristocracy fight - an old-fashioned player (7) |
| REBS | Those who fight an establishment (abbr.) |
| COMPETENT | Good fight an activist ends |