| TOYSOLDIER | Military man in play, perhaps (3,7) |
| MALEFACTOR | Man in play perhaps trapping female criminal (10) |
| OUTFIELDER | Someone taking part as third man in play? |
| IMAGINED | Fancied a military man in tight denim |
| COLONELMUSTARD | Military man in the game Clue |
| ARMIGER | Military man in branch number one upset |
| FARR | Jamie ___, actor who played a cross-dressing military man in M*A*S*H (4) |
| BYACCIDENT | Bit of by-play, perhaps, in which sleuths get points unintentionally (2,8) |
| LOVELYRITA | She looked a little like a military man |
| FORTINBRAS | Military man favouring plated underwear? |
| COMMANDEER | Hijack the military man around the east (10) |
| CASTLE | Man in play given role (back half of mule) (6) |
| MATINEE | Play, perhaps, in team transformed by European |
| ACTS | Performs in a Broadway play perhaps |
| CROATIAN | Actor in a play, perhaps a Split personality? (8) |
| ACTTHREE | In middle of long play perhaps catheter failed (3,5) |
| ERE | Before now, in a Shakespeare play perhaps |
| DIALOGUE | Au, i.e. gold, traded in exchange brought into play perhaps (8) |
| ACT | Take a role in a stage play perhaps and get some upsetting catcalls (3) |
| LIKELY | Former president getting in 50-50, by close of play perhaps 60-40? (6) |
