| GENERALSTAFF | Officers assigned to advise commanders in the planning and execution of military operations |
| INSPECTORS | Police officers assigned to princess? |
| LTCOLS | Battalion commanders in the U.S.M.C. |
| PROGRAMMING | O-ring to mar mpg calculations in the planning (11) |
| CASER | Thief in the planning stage |
| ELIZABETHI | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's daughter whose reign as the last Tudor monarch saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (9,1) |
| AUTODAFE | Ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement and execution of sentences (4-2-2) |
| PONTIUS | Roman governor involved in the trial and execution of Jesus, ... Pilate |
| PEER | Member of the House of Lords whose predecessors some 1,000 years ago were drawn together in the form of the Witan to advise Saxon kings (4) |
| FIELDHOSPITAL | Centre of military operations in theatre of war? |
| COMMANDERS | Officers in charge of military operations (10) |
| CAMPAIGN | Series of military operations intended to achieve a goal (8) |
| EICHMANN | Nazi war criminal who fled to Argentina after WWII, Adolf ..., was located by Israeli agents in 1960 and taken to Israel for trial and execution |
| TERREUR | La ..., a period of the French Revolution following the creation of the First Republic when massacres and executions took place (7) |
| NEWGATE | Former prison and execution site in the City of London (7) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien ___, a key figure in the French Revolution until his overthrow and execution in 1794 (11) |
| SECTORS | Divisions of an area of military operations (7) |
| DAMECOLETTE | Economist and non-executive director of the DfT who published a review into the planning of Network Rail's enhancements programme for control period 5 (4,7,4) |
| BOWE | Economist and non-executive director of the DfT who published a review into the planning of Network Rail's enhancements programme for control period 5 (4,7,4) |
| MYOPIA | Poor vision to be left out of the planning of Olympia (6) |
