| CORRIDOR | School cleaner may have done this as a pretext for World War II (6,8) |
| POLISH | School cleaner may have done this as a pretext for World War II (6,8) |
| ECOTERRORISM | Beasts as a pretext for violence etc? I'm so wrong to hold fallacy (12) |
| CALLEDTOTHEBAR | Inn may have done this ordering a red table-cloth |
| PLEA | A pretext for turning pale (4) |
| STRAPPEDFORCASH | Short dominatrix may have done this (8,3,4) |
| CHUFFED | Mallard may have done this if very happy (7) |
| SEAOWL | SS-405, a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy that received five battle stars for World War II |
| FOR | Bette Midler performs for World War II soldiers in ... the Boys (3) |
| HURRICANE | Model raunchier for World War II fighter (9) |
| EXCUSE | Formerly hundred getting employment as a pretext (6) |
| BLUEFLU | Police protest that uses illness as a pretext |
| CRYSTALMETHLAB | You don't want this as a next door neighbour |
| WOLSTENHOLME | Sports commentator who won a DFC medal for second world war action (12) |
| IWOJIMA | Pacific island known for World War 2 battle |
| DOONESLEVELBEST | Try one's hardest, as a tower block cleaner may? (2,4,5,4) |
| DANCED | As a singer, I could have done this all night (6) |
| VICTORY | Dig for -; Second World War campaign encouraging people to grow their own veg during rationing; or, a word associated with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 (7) |
| VETERAN | Check king with a knight that may have done a lot of attacking |
| OPENDAY | What a school may have done -pay involved? (4,3) |
