| COMPETITOR | Happen to secure power over flier or rival |
| RAPID | Quick to secure power in middle of attack |
| OTITIS | Complaint over fliers seen around Italy (6) |
| COMANCHE | Happen to secure farm without roof, as plainsman (8) |
| COMPARE | Happen to secure expected standard: the best are beyond it |
| PINION | Secure power at home with charge (6) |
| ASPIRE | A father secures power to rise to a great height |
| EMULATE | Try to match or rival successfully (7) |
| ADMIRAL | Navy high flier or red delicate flier (7) |
| BEE | Busy flier, or a hint to the starred answers' ends |
| ARCH | Prefix for enemy or rival |
| MATCHLESS | Lacking a game to play - or rivals |
| BAT | A night-flier, or a night-watchman perhaps (3) |
| MAMMOTH | A tiny measure accepted by flier - or very large? (7) |
| CHOPINSPAN | A flier or fryer for Frederic? |
| LADYBIRD | Female flier or insect? (8) |
| EARHART | Woman high-flier or a male confusing earth and air (6,7) |
| AMELIA | Woman high-flier or a male confusing earth and air (6,7) |
| ROO | Informal Australian name for a mob-forming plant-eating pugilistic boomer, flier or marsupium-bearing jill/doe with young called joeys (3) |
| LEAFLETS | Fliers or handbills advertising events, political parties, products etc; or, the folioles forming compound greenery of ashes, ferns, horse chestnuts and other plants/trees (8) |
