| BACKTOFRONT | Reversed position of the fighting man, having returned from leave? (4,2,5) |
| INFO | Dope having returned from Belfast? |
| SOLDER | I will leave the fighting man to join up (6) |
| SOLDIER | The fighting man is older, possibly (7) |
| SALAD | Small boy grabbing a grub from leaves? (5) |
| SCRAPBOOKS | The fighting man's diaries? (10) |
| SWERVE | From "leave, stray, turn aside", an abrupt change of direction; a sudden deviation; or, the act of making a cricket ball swing laterally in flight (6) |
| AFFRAY | Public order offence consisting of the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of ordinary people |
| GLANCE | Look quickly at the weapon after the end of the fighting (6) |
| ELECTOR | Creator of X reversed position about European court |
| DEPART | Catch the chief coming back from leave (6) |
| WESTFRONT | Point to the face where some of the fighting occurs (4,5) |
| TURNEDOVER | Having considered carefully, reversed position |
| AESOP | Reversed position and followed a fabulous writer (5) |
| TEA | Beverage prepared from leaves of a shrub of the camellia family (3) |
| STUN | Apt letters missing from leave a_ _o_ _ded |
| CONTINGENT | Last of the fighting in Europe for army unit (10) |
| THWART | Stop most of the fighting and conflict ultimately (6) |
| EDINBORO | Pennsylvania's _ _ University, home of the Fighting Scots |
| TURNER | Joseph, London-born painter of The Fighting Temeraire (6) |
