| TREBLECLEF | Sign on staff from sport's inner circle ahead of brief split (6,4) |
| FOEMAN | Environmental campaign took on staff from the enemy, in the past (6) |
| ECHO | Memory of sweetheart and brief split (4) |
| RECRUDESCE | From sports ground, secured criminal is to break out again (10) |
| ALANBROOKE | 1st Viscount ?, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941-46 |
| ALPENSTOCK | Staff from Switzerland you can't sack? (10) |
| MANSERVANT | Staff from taverns confused Batman (10) |
| BROADBRUSH | Lacking detail of brief encounter by stretch of water in Norfolk (10) |
| GLOSSARIST | Term for a writer/compiler of brief dictionary-like alphabetical lists of words relating to specific subjects (10) |
| MANUSCRIPT | Original text of brief Manchester United screenplay (10) |
| FORTYWINKS | "Sacrosanct" number of brief eye-shuts taken as a post-dinner nap or doze, as described by a "wow-wow sauce"-inventing eccentric Victorian optician and cook as a way to prolong life (5,5) |
| LEGALCOSTS | What you might pay for a good pair of briefs you could part with for a suit? (5,5) |
| TENORCLEF | Sign on staff when one left ill after eating odd portions of rice (5,4) |
| CROSS | Part missing from sports car - one of those hybrid types? (5) |
| TITCH | Someone short of time heading off from sports field |
| CLEF | Division short of time? Sign on staff |
| BASSCLEF | Month's up ? bring in new class and sign on staff (4,4) |
| SEMIBREVE | Sign on staff that could fill a bar (9) |
| BRADLEY | Omar ___, US Army general; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1949-53 (7) |
| OMARBRADLEY | US Army officer; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1949-53 (4,7) |
