| HUMANSHIELD | Handle him with us perhaps, we're deployed to deter enemy attack (5,6) |
| NAM | Where swift boats were deployed, for short |
| MOATS | Ditches surrounding some medieval castles to withstand enemy attack (5) |
| MANAGE | He begins to mature but we can handle him! (6) |
| REDALERT | Enemy-attack warning |
| HOTHEAD | Being the type to fly off the handle, he had to reform (7) |
| CIVILDEFENCE | Non-military organisation dealing with effects of enemy attacks (5,7) |
| TRANSFUSION | Injection of blood for infants or us, perhaps (11) |
| PUNCTUATION | Period in America perhaps that's overlooked by lazy writers (11) |
| INDIANOCEAN | Lots of water and iodine Anna deployed to restrict cut initially |
| UNIFIERS | They get us to join as one with the fire in us, perhaps (8) |
| MEN | Knights, perhaps, were mad in Jon Hamm series (3) |
| ONICE | Where unpublished facts of the Titanic, perhaps, were put...pending? (2,3) |
| DODGETHEDRAFT | Reason to go to Canada from the US, perhaps |
| NOREEN | Ephron, perhaps, were she a colleen |
| HEREANDNOW | When perhaps we're on hand (4,3,3) |
| TOUCHPAPER | Contact us, perhaps, to get starter for banger (10) |
| ESL | Class for a recent immigrant to the US, perhaps: Abbr. |
| STOUT | To us, perhaps, the titular head is strong |
| SUIT | To us, perhaps, it could mean diamonds (4) |
