| HERMITAGE | Military leader in tradition of retreat (9) |
| VALENTINE | 3rd-century Christian Roman saint associated with a tradition of courtly love (9) |
| FLEETWEEK | Marines tradition of big-city docking |
| FORBIDDEN | In favour of retreat after offer is vetoed (9) |
| SANCTUARY | Start of summer month with Judge away, keeping court as place of retreat (9) |
| CONDOLORE | Sadly, the traditions of US apartments? (3,6) |
| REDENSIGN | Flag of retreat interrupts surrender (3,6) |
| INEARNEST | Seriously independent approach taken by place of retreat (2,7) |
| CONQUISTADOR | Military leader in the Spanish conquest of the New World in the 16th century (12) |
| GIDEON | Prophet and military leader, in the Book of Judges (6) |
| IMPRESARIO | Madly praise military leader in front of Rio producer (10) |
| TAVERN | Aver, in tradition's ends, there's one in the town in traditional song (6) |
| TEAS | Ones steeped in tradition in England? |
| AMBUSH | A military leader in front of the shrub will make a surprise attack |
| MARQUIS | ____ of Granby, pub name deriving from an English military leader in the Seven Years' War (7) |
| EGGS | Said to turn to diamonds 100 years after being laid on Good Friday, symbols of birth, life and of spring, used in the tradition of jarping and depicted in chocolate at Easter (4) |
| SHAKA | Zulu chief, founder of Zulu empire, murdered by his half-brothers and one of his military leaders in 1828 (5) |
| ACCORD | Caught military leader, in a way, making treaty (6) |
| REAGANOMICS | US policies once implicating military leader in heinous crimes, no? |
| SIRDAR | A military leader in Pakistan and India (6) |
