| WINGCOMMANDER | Footballer accepts order, being commissioned in the RAF (4,9) |
| ENSIGNS | Flag officers newly commissioned in the Navy (7) |
| BEDSOCKS | Footballer accepts order for keeping feet warm (8) |
| SECRETSERVICE | Have confidence in the RAF, say, being involved in espionage (6,7) |
| CONTROVERSIAL | Have authority to accept order varies if open to question (13) |
| COUNTERMANDED | Dom created nun, orders being revoked thereby (13) |
| PAPERFASTENER | They use repeat pens in the RAF! It's on file! |
| PRIVATEERS | Ships commissioned in war in order to revise trap (10) |
| ACCORDING | Is agree in good order, being in harmony (9) |
| EMERALD | Class of light cruiser for the Royal Navy, first commissioned in 1926 (7) |
| HOMEGROWN | He accepts order strangely wrong, produced in one's own garden (4-5) |
| INCENDIARY | Cried in any order, being provocative (10) |
| INCOMPETENT | Tone etc in MP out of order, being without ability? (11) |
| FILTHIEST | The lift is out of order, being most dirty (9) |
| COMMANDO | Soldier, resourceful when challenged, accepts order given by military leader |
| BROMIDE | Newly-wed accepts order for sedative (7) |
| BOLDNESS | Chief accepts order to lend confidence (8) |
| WARRANTOFFICER | The highest non-commissioned rank in the RAF (7.7) |
| CHEESEPARING | Cheap greens I order, being parsimonious (12) |
| ESCAPADE | Prank ceased, order being restored with dad's entrance |
