| DUFFELCOAT | Provides cover in winter for the paramilitaries in Germany, Lima and Ulster (6,4) |
| SCAPAFLOW | Naval base provides cover in South Africa on run (5,4) |
| EARWARMERS | Canal covers in winter? |
| DUFFEL | Rough stuff for paramilitaries in Germany and Mid-Wales (6) |
| HERBGARDEN | Sounds like somewhere you'd expect time frame perhaps in winter for one of those supplying kitchen ( |
| HELMET | The upset around the wood will provide cover in battle (6) |
| EVERGREEN | Not losing cover in winter is enduringly popular |
| INSURERS | They provide cover in certain empty rooms (8) |
| BELOWZERO | When it's very cold in winter - for one? (5,4) |
| SEASON | Spice it up a bit, in winter, for example (6) |
| UPHOLSTERS | Provides cover for tours and helps out (10) |
| PLANTATREE | Spy provides cover following American? It's something one does when opening doors for first time! (5 |
| NIGHTSHADE | Spud's relative provides cover after sun has gone down (10) |
| BRASSY | Disreputable old paramilitaries in Wicklow town made look yellow for knocking on the door (6) |
| NORROY | ____ and Ulster, the King of Arms who has jurisdiction over Northern Ireland and England north of the Trent |
| LAWFULLY | According to rules, horrible being in Lima and leaving you in the beginning (8) |
| ABUTMENT | Sailor and Ulster workers in race to bridge support (8) |
| ALBANIAN | Living in Europe with a lab engineer and Ulster supporter needing no introduction (8) |
| GEORGEPSMITH | American biologist who shared one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Gregory P. Winter for work on phage display: 3 wds. |
| BRUME | Literary word, from "shortest day, winter", for heavy mist or fog, especially around the mid-winter solstice (5) |
