| ARMADA | Invasion fleet will prepare for war with a US lawman (6) |
| ADAGE | Saw, for instance, a US lawman brought up (5) |
| LONGMIRE | Aussie Robert Taylor plays a US lawman in ___ |
| STEADILY | How the fleet will proceed (8) |
| REARM | Once more a member will prepare for a fight (5) |
| TRAIN | The retinue will prepare for the match (5) |
| HIATUS | Opening with a US hit that's been remixed (6) |
| ACACIA | A tree, current with a US espionage group |
| ARDOUR | Head off for war with grim enthusiasm |
| FARROW | Piglets prepare for war (6) |
| EMBATTLE | Prepare for war with random timetable, one ignored (8) |
| ARMENIAN | West Asian seen to prepare for war with inane resolution |
| ARMANDO | Prepare for war with an iconic revolution involving universal Scottish satirist (7,8) |
| IANNUCCI | Prepare for war with an iconic revolution involving universal Scottish satirist (7,8) |
| HICKOK | Wild Bill ___, US lawman and gunfighter killed in 1876 whilst playing poker (6) |
| RANGER | US lawman called about uprising (6) |
| MCKINLEY | ____ Morganfield, a.k.a. blues musician Muddy Waters, shared a name with a US president (8) |
| DIOMEDES | Hero of the Trojan War who, according to Homer, entered the war with a fleet of 80 ships |
| MARYROSE | Henry VIII's ship that sank around a mile from the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour during an engagement with a French invasion fleet in 1545 (4,4) |
| KUROSAWA | Developing a work with a US film-maker |
