| TAKESCOMMAND | Receives an order or prepares to give them (5,7) |
| SQUARESUP | Settles, or prepares to fight (7,2) |
| KNEELS | Gets down on one or prepares to pray perhaps |
| SETTEE | Sit here or prepare to drive? |
| SQUAREUP | Settle, or prepare to fight? (6,2) |
| PAVES | Facilitates or prepares / overlays |
| NEWYEARSEVE | When to don a 40-Down or prepare to throw 11-Down |
| TAXIDERMISTS | People who prepare, stuff and mount animal skins to give them a life-like appearance (12) |
| BLACKPANTHER | First superhero film to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture |
| PENELOPECRUZ | The first Spanish actress to receive an Academy Award (8,4) |
| ASYOUWERE | A military command to withdraw an order or return to the previous position (2,3,4) |
| AYEAYE | A sailor's expression of compliance on receipt of an order; or, a response to "ahoy" if an officer is aboard (3,3) |
| REGALIA | Emblems of royalty or decoration and insignia indicating an order or office |
| UNBELTS | Prepares to give a spanking, perhaps |
| AIRS | How musical to be able to give them to yourself! (4) |
| COFFEEPOTS | Cafetieres, cezves, French presses, ibriks, mokas or other perks in which to percolate or prepare one's bean-based brews, caffeine-fuelled morning pick-me-ups or Javanese jump leads (6,4) |
| OBEDIENCE | Compliance with an order or law |
| NOD | Head gesture indicating acknowledgment, a greeting, an order or command |
| DECREE | An order or judgment of a court made after hearing a suit (6) |
| DIRECTION | An order, or whence it comes (9) |
