| COMMANDO | Member of a specialist British military force, active in 1940-46 (8) |
| VIETCONG | Communist-led Asian guerrilla force active from 1954 to 1976 (8) |
| BARMY | Crazy British military force (5) |
| RAF | British military force (1,1,1) |
| BARMIEST | Most eccentric of British military forces facing defeat ultimately (8) |
| REFERRAL | Suggestion of a specialist |
| MAFIKENG | Anglicised spelling of one of three key British military towns under siege in the South African War (8) |
| MAFEKING | British military outpost besieged in Boer War (8) |
| LAWRENCE | T E -, British military officer who authored 1926 volume Seven Pillars of Wisdom (8) |
| LASTPOST | In the British military, a bugle call that orders personnel to retire for sleep (4,4) |
| SOFAS | What to sit on in rooms of a specialist (5) |
| IRONDUKE | Press extremely derisive about British military leader |
| CLINIC | A place or hospital department where outpatients are given medical treatment or advice, especially of a specialist nature (6) |
| JACKOFALLTRADES | Opposite of a specialist |
| SHOWER | Disparaging British military slang for a group of people regarded as incompetent, untidy or a worthless bane; moreover, a flight of arrows, pelting of hail or scud of rain (6) |
| WELLINGTON | Name of a beef dish, a capital city, and a British military leader in the Napoleonic wars (10) |
| BALACLAVACAP | Item of clothing named for the site of a disastrous British military action of 10/25/1854 |
| ABA | City in southeast Nigeria, site of a British military outpost from 1901 (3) |
| PONTIAC | Ottawa war chief after whom a struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region in the 1760s was named |
| VICTORIACROSS | British military medal first awarded in 1857 (8,5) |
