| HAMSTRUNG | Powerless, being suspended by radio operator (9) |
| ABRAHAM | Patriarch gets key support by radio operator (7) |
| ARCHAISM | Sort of lamp used by radio operator is included, not as present (8) |
| FIGUREHEAD | Leader that's powerless, being bust from the navy |
| MYHANDSARETIED | I'm powerless, being extremely done up (2,5.3.4) |
| ADRIFT | Powerless, being caught in a heap of snow |
| HANGINGON | Waiting being suspended before performing (7,2) |
| HUNGARIAN | Suspended by one challenging Christ's divinity in European city (9) |
| RAINEDOFF | Pants of a friend suspended by shower? |
| SLIMEBALL | Scumbag initially suspended by Green Party? |
| SIGNALLER | Wrong to go to Paris to secure good radio operator? (9) |
| AHAMOMENT | A radio operator sign - that's first when you get it |
| HAMBURGER | Supreme radio operator (1969-86) |
| NEDKELLY | Outlaw making likely end - bad one being suspended (3,5) |
| ABEYANT | Criminally help to conceal American, shortly being suspended |
| UNSLUNG | One French breather accepted old Bob freed from being suspended (7) |
| HOVERED | He would have finished, being suspended (7) |
| KEEPNET | Being suspended from the bank, there's likely a catch in it (7) |
| ONCEORTWICE | A few Times crew to get sacked, coverage being suspended? (4,2,5) |
| TRAPEZE | Crossbar suspended by ropes, used as a swing by acrobats (7) |
