| CLOSEDIN | Prepared to capture, perhaps |
| ABETS | Shields from capture, perhaps |
| DISARM | Win over maids prepared to capture king (6) |
| REINSERT | Put back in check, prepared to capture queen |
| SOLITAIRE | Realist, I prepared to capture love with expensive bauble (9) |
| HEARD | Picked up king, perhaps, to capture rook (5) |
| BIRDS | Attempts to capture queen and rooks, perhaps (5) |
| DRYING | Failing to capture rook, finding nothing to say |
| NOMINATE | Propose using ray, perhaps, to capture bird |
| FILMSTAR | Acts the big fella perhaps to capture rats coming back (4,4) |
| APATHY | Indifference to a way to capture heart of royal (6) |
| TORPEDO | To make a further attempt to capture Polaris' top missile? (7) |
| PARALYSE | To disable soldier, the solution to capture first of supplies (8) |
| DIKTAT | Order a small piece to move up to capture a knight (6) |
| CASSATA | About to capture fool, thanks to ice cream (7) |
| ENPASSANT | As sensible to capture pawn, about to go by the book, thus? |
| EQUESTRIAN | Energy given to search organised to capture one horseman |
| ARGO | Sonar going to capture Jason's vessel (4) |
| CRUSADE | Christian expedition to capture the Holy Land (7) |
| NOTHING | Out to capture hearts, getting grand love (7) |
