| MISSPENT | It looks like our security service's repressed and dissipated (8) |
| ADANAC | Saskatchewan hamlet, it looks like our great nation in a way |
| WHOGUARDS | Classic question concerning our security arrangements (3,6,3,9) |
| ETA | Seventh letter that looks like our eighth |
| AMAZONS | Astonished to lose journalist and dissipated son to strong women (7) |
| FRITTERED | Battered and dissipated? (9) |
| ALSATIAN | Breed of dog often used by police and security services (8) |
| MISSTATE | Falsify view of security service on country (8) |
| MISTREAT | Abuse from security service, apparently a special experience (8) |
| HUMANOID | Sticky, admitting an operator is like our kind (8) |
| ARMAGNAC | Sounds like "Our man Yak" has a spirited drink! (8) |
| LUBYANKA | Popular name for the headquarters of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in Moscow (8) |
| TENMONTH | Second round first, they follow Sun 9th ___ like our football season? (3-5) |
| NATIONAL | Public like our newspaper |
| STASI | Common name for the East German security services, 1950-1990 (5) |
| ADT | Big name in residential security services |
| LOCKSMITH | Key worker in security services? |
| STASIS | Former security service's inaction (6) |
| WONDER | Curious awe, like over the scale of the universe and how many millions of suns like our own we haven't even discovered yet, and how tiny variations in chemistry might lead to profound atmospheric cons |
| WUNDERBAR | In this Cole Porter song from Kiss Me Kate, Lilli and Fred sang, "There's our fav'rite star above. What a bright, shining star; Like our love, it's ...!" |
