| BLUEENSIGN | Sad old officer had the flag (4,6) |
| LOOKDOWNON | Despise study by sad old nationalist (4,4,2) |
| KIRKCONNEL | Where in Scotland church officer had none but lacked nothing (10) |
| LOCOMOTIVE | Rocket, perhaps, old officer sent up with reason |
| PHOTOGENIC | Peppery old officer in film, presenting attractive image |
| ASHBLONDES | Dors and Monroe, say, sad old has-beens, energy sapped (3,7) |
| GENERALSTORE | A senior officer had a stock in the shop (7,5) |
| THIRDBOROUGH | Old officer in town given the bronze medal? |
| URIAH | Old officer king had murdered in Guernica - tho' oddly overlooked |
| ADMIRE | Appreciate senior officer had to lose a trainee, at the end (6) |
| DOLEFUL | Sad old lot, mostly loaded |
| TRIST | Sad old medieval knight losing memory |
| GRANDDADS | Golf? Managed two days with terribly sad old men (9) |
| THELADYVANISHES | Remake heavenly with this sad old film (3,4,8) |
| SALVADORDALI | Painter upset a sad old rival (8,4) |
| WARMBLOODEDNESS | Poor sad old Serb women displaying passion (4,11) |
| TATTERDEMALIONS | Sad old men, as inclined initially to be dressed in rags |
| CALTROP | Anti-cavalry weapon an officer had in stock |
| HAVILDAR | Indian officer had rival banged up (8) |
| MATELOT | A ship's officer had plenty to offer a seaman (7) |
