| CHUMPS | Fools the allies, having grasped power (6) |
| STAPLE | The chief, having grasped power, is old (6) |
| SLAP | The allies having been made to retreat is a blow (4) |
| SPOON | Having grasped power, soon mete out to (5) |
| TESTED | Edward, having grasped French, is examined (6) |
| MASSES | Leader of men fools the people (6) |
| VOTARY | One by promise bound to change having grasped holy works (6) |
| TREATY | That of Trianon in 1920, between Hungary and the Allies, helped conclude the First World War (6) |
| BELSEN | Bergen-___, the Nazi concentration camp liberated by the Allies in April 1945 (6) |
| ALLIES | Relating to the Allies (6) |
| UNITED | You fool, the editor is in agreement (6) |
| GREXIT | Fool the king into leaving currency for 27 (6) |
| CLOTHE | Dress, as a fool, the male (6) |
| ASSAIL | Attack, like a fool, the lumbering Ali (6) |
| TOBRUK | Libyan city where the Allies surrendered to German general Erwin Rommel in 1942 (6) |
| TROMPE | ___ d'oeil (fool-the-eye art) |
| OUTWIT | Fool the missing joker |
| TWIT | The fool's the first to get the humour (4) |
| GATHEREDGAS | Having grasped the method, got faster (8,3) |
| ASSES | Fools the girls when student drops out (5) |
