| CORPORAL | Rank held by the character Nym in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597) |
| ADMIRAL | Rank held by the Beaufort Scale's inventor |
| ANNEPAGE | Character in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor who is in love with Master Fenton |
| CORPORALNYM | Follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives Of Windsor, said in Henry V to have been engaged to Mistress Quickly (8,3) |
| GREENSLEEVES | Which song, published in 1581, is mentioned in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor? (12) |
| PISTOL | Follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| MISTRESSFORD | Resolute woman in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives Of Windsor (8,4) |
| NICOLAI | Co-founder of the Vienna Philharmonic who composed an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| REGIMENTALSERGEANTMAJOR | Rank held by a warrant officer class 1 in the army or Royal Marines |
| POTATO | A root vegetable with a jacket or one of the yam-like tubers wished by Falstaff to rain from the sky in The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| KHALEESI | Dothraki title for a queen in the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by US author George R. R. Martin, borne by the character Daenerys Targaryen (8) |
| MEMORY | Song in the musical Cats sung by the character Grizabella with lyrics by Trevor Nunn (6) |
| THREESTAR | Type of rank held by vice-admiral (5-4) |
| OFFICERCADET | Rank held by trainees at Sandhurst, Dartmouth and RAF Cranwell, for example |
| MIDSHIPMAN | Probationary rank held by young naval officers under training (10) |
| WAYOFALLFLESH | "The ... ... ... ... ", novel by Samuel Butler narrated by the character Overton (3,2,3,5) |
| NYMPHET | Term used by the character Humbert Humbert to describe the young girl in Nabokov's novel, Lolita |
| IDREAMEDADREAM | Song sung by the character Fantine in the stage and film musical Les Miserables (1,7,1,5) |
| PORTOBELLOROAD | Sixth song in the 1971 film musical Bedknobs and Broomsticks, sung by the character Emelius Browne (10,4) |
| UNCONDITIONAL | Rank held by a French gangster without qualification |
