| BADENPOWELL | Robert ?, British Army lieutenant-general who founded the Scout Movement (5-6) |
| PEEL | Robert ?, British prime minister from 1841-46 (4) |
| JOHNMOORE | Glasgow-born British army lieutenant-general mortally wounded in the Battle of Corunna in 1809 (4,5) |
| DARBY | US Army general who founded the Rangers |
| COMMANDLINE | General, lieutenant general, major general ... |
| VICEADMIRAL | The naval equivalent of a lieutenant general and air marshal (4,7) |
| ULZANASRAID | Robert Aldrich film western starring Burt Lancaster as the scout McIntosh (7,4) |
| SILVERSTARS | Lieutenant general's insignia trio |
| POWELL | Robert -, founder of the Scout Movement (5-6) |
| BADEN | Robert -, founder of the Scout Movement (5-6) |
| BROWNSEA | --- Island, Dorset location of a 1907 camp that led to the formation of the Scout movement (8) |
| CALLSOUT | Gets everybody in the Scout movement to stop working? (5,3) |
| CLOUTS | Strikes as being a beginner in the scout movement (6) |
| NSC | Gp. headed by retired US Army lieutenant general Mike Flynn in 2017 |
| TOUCHES | Feels he is in the Scout movement (7) |
| WINGCOMMANDER | RAF equivalent to a British army lieutenant colonel (4,9) |
| IRISH | - Guards; with the motto Quis Separabit (Who Shall Separate Us?), British Army regiment known as the Micks (5) |
| SELEUCUS | ? I Nicator, Macedonian general who founded a dynasty after the death of Alexander the Great |
| CLIVE | Robert, British general who was victorious at Plassey in 1757 (5) |
| MAJORGENERAL | Officer immediately junior to a lieutenant general in the army (5,7) |