| TACTICALLY | In terms of strategy, in-charge friend will back up diplomacy (10) |
| INTENTIONALLY | When camping, charge friend on purpose (13) |
| NIM | Meaning "to take", a combinatorial game of strategy in which two players take turns to remove coins, matchsticks, stones etc from heaps, piles or rows (3) |
| AGO | A game of strategy in the past |
| SCHLIEFFEN | ___ Plan, German military strategy in the early days of World War I (10) |
| MASTERPLAN | Brilliant strategy in reinterpretation of maps learnt (6,4) |
| CATAMARANS | Spoil article in game of strategy with small boats (10) |
| SPEEDCHESS | Talks will enthral daughter beginning to study game of strategy |
| GAMETHEORY | Competitive strategy, in economics |
| DOUBLETEAM | Two-on-one defense strategy in basketball |
| PAL | Friend will pass back-runner in reverse (3) |
| TACTICIAN | Master of strategy showing diplomacy in charge of Scotsman (9) |
| TOPICALLY | Best friend will eat one cold, in current fashion (9) |
| TACTIC | Might show diplomacy in charge of strategy (6) |
| UNACCOMPANIED | No one will back this kind of performance (13) |
| DRUMMERS | They will back you up with a beating (8) |
| ILLTIMED | I will back issue by head of department that's inappropriate (3-5) |
| ASSUME | Suppose, like me, America will back-track in (6) |
| AMIGO | A friend will offer an American private backing within a very short time (5) |
| PALAVER | Friend will declare that it is idle talk |
