| CHARGEHAND | Launch an attack to deal with a foreman (6-4) |
| JURY | Court group with a foreman |
| SUPERVISOR | ... a foreman with outstanding face protection (10) |
| ZEROHOUR | Joker abandoning howitzer interfered with our time set to launch an attack (4,4) |
| RAISETAXES | One way to deal with a budget deficit |
| COUNTTOTEN | How to deal with a bad temper, perhaps |
| GETTOGRIPS | To deal with a problem or subject (3,2,5) |
| LAMPOONIST | One making satirical attack to cause ridicule |
| STRIKE | Had to work faster to launch an attack from the air (6) |
| ASSAIL | Sounds like a yachting trip to launch an attack (6) |
| STRAFE | To launch an attack faster, maybe (6) |
| SIC | A way to launch an attack on |
| CHARGE | Service battery to launch an attack (6) |
| SALLY | Southern confederate to launch an attack (5) |
| LETFLY | Authorise pilot to launch an attack? (3,3) |
| SHELL | That lady will shortly launch an attack |
| BOSUN | Former pupil, in short, led a star to a foreman, in the main (5) |
| FIREABROADSIDE | Launch a verbal attack to sack a sweeping team (4,1,9) |
| ONCEUPONATIME | Words that launch an invention for children? (4,4,1,4) |
| OVERSEER | Get across, poetically, with lines for a foreman (8) |
