| COTISE | Firm set I fancy showing a heraldic band adjacent to an ordinary, such as a chevron (6) |
| CHARGE | Heraldic device such as a chevron, cross, pale or saltire represented on a shield; a bugle call; accumulation of electricity; or, a headlong rush of cavalry troops (6) |
| SPECIAL | Word for something additional to ordinary, such as a restaurant's dish of the day or a newspaper's extra (7) |
| FESS | How Americans own up to a heraldic band (4) |
| WEAK | Guardian to an ordinary knight taking steps to secure one of the 10 26 (4,7) |
| COTANGENT | In a right-angled triangle, the length of the side adjacent to an angle divided by that of the side opposite it (9) |
| ALONGSIDE | Moored adjacent to an extended team (9) |
| PRIMEMERIDIAN | Mini-map erred, I fancy, showing line through London (5,8) |
| PEDIGREE | First of postgraduates with degree I fancy showing quality (8) |
| MAGNIFICAT | Publication in fact I fancy showing canticle (10) |
| STRIPE | An old word for a whip to the flesh with a scourge or lash; a band of colour; a banded cloth or pattern, such as that in the Breton or candy style; or, a chevron on a sleeve (6) |
| SEADOG | A Jack tar, old salt, pirate or sailor; a white rainbow as seen by a mariner; an antiquated word for a shark or a seal; or, a heraldic beast in the form of a talbot with a beaver's tail (3,3) |
| TANNOY | Colloquial term for a public address system taken from the name of a firm set up by Guy Fountain in 1926 (6) |
| SAVAGE | From "of the woods", a human being in a primitive, uncivilised or wild state; a barbarian or brute; a heraldic representation of a bearded seminaked man in a wreath of leaves; or, an enraged horse/vic |
| ARNOTT | Jake, author who wrote the crime novel The Long Firm, set in the 1960s (6) |
| STEADY | Firm set about woman when leaderless (6) |
| COSSET | Firm sets out to show great care (6) |
| SLEEVE | Place for a chevron |
| NAIANT | Meaning "to swim", word for a dolphin, fish, shrimp or other sea creature emblazoned as swimming horizontally across a heraldic field (6) |
| ROMPU | Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like. (5) |