| CANDYSTRIPE | Pattern once used for hospital volunteer uniforms, with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| EVENT | Uniform with a shirt for a function (5) |
| STRIPDOWN | Take to pieces lightweight uniform with a depressed air (5,4) |
| MAIDOFHONOUR | Uniform with a hood designed for royal attendant |
| GUFFAW | Joker returns, carrying uniform, with a couple of females, getting huge laughter (6) |
| CANDYSTRIPER | Hospital volunteer named for a red-and-white jumper |
| SERGEANTSUIT | Military uniform with a three-bar chevron? |
| UNITY | One uniform with a tiny variation (5) |
| MESS | Word once used for a portion of food or a set of four served together at a medieval banquet, hence a group of military personnel who eat together or the meal so taken (4) |
| LIVERISHNESS | Rebellious 1 5 9 donning uniforms with singular irritability (12) |
| ARROWSMITH | Fletcher has designs on prison uniforms with Mackay innocently trusting him at first |
| PANAMAHAT | Country hospital volunteers to return some cover (6,3) |
| SPENT | Prison supports last of uniforms with time done (5) |
| SPACENEEDLE | He thought NASA sewed astronauts' uniforms with the __ |
| STOCKS | A wooden frame once used for locking an offender's head, hands or feet as a punishment (6) |
| STRIPERS | Candy ___ (hospital volunteers) |
| PUNCHCARD | A stiff piece of paper once used for inputting computer data (5-4) |
| YARDS | Units of length once used for cloth, 220 of which form a furlong (5) |
| ACORN | Nut of a tree nicknamed cups and saucers whose timber was once used for Royal Navy ships (5) |
| NAPIERSBONES | Rods once used for multiplication and division, invented by a Scottish mathematician |
