| ASUSUAL | Normal assault course conducted in absence of escort (2,5) |
| COUNTER | A bar-like fitment/top over which business is conducted in a bank, cafe or shop; the void in an "O" that doesn't print; or, any one of a set of discs used in a board game or in tiddlywinks |
| REGIMEN | Soldiers missing out end of assault course (7) |
| ANAGRAM | Half of banana spread over corset of escort, perhaps (7) |
| ASARULE | Generally scouts set out from assault course in a disorderly fashion (2,1,4) |
| STRIPES | Adornments along the sides of Escort Mexico Mkis (7) |
| EMANATE | Cover of Escort: a celebrity back issue (7) |
| MILKING | Taking advantage of class conducted in China (7) |
| TOUSLED | In our direction conducted in disarray (7) |
| ESPANOL | Univision interviews are conducted in it |
| LEAGUED | Suppressing fever, conducted in concert |
| COURSES | Lessons conducted in river-beds (7) |
| DESERVE | Merit German service in absence of in-charge (7) |
| ICECUBE | Rapper, in absence of warm response, oddly crumbled (3,4) |
| TEMPTER | For the Devil, time less busy in absence of yours truly |
| MICROBE | In absence of cat, players about to steal something much smaller |
| SEALORD | Secure command in absence of first officer |
| AVIATOR | Pilot's silly prevarication in absence of prince (7) |
| DROUGHT | Doctor is required in absence of water (7) |
| STUDENT | Trainee's risky act around lair in absence of direction (7) |
