| RECHARGES | Soldiers run at the enemy and section reloads |
| TANTARA | Part-time soldiers ran at deployment by trumpet-blast (7) |
| PREEMPTIVE | ___ attack, early strike at the enemy (3-7) |
| IACTA | Tela in hostes ____ : weapons hurled at the enemy |
| POGO | Comic strip that's the source of the line "We have met the enemy and he is us" |
| TIMEKEEPER | Perhaps watch the enemy and respect the Queen (10) |
| ISUS | "We have met the enemy and he ___" |
| ARE | "We have met the enemy, and they ___ ours": Oliver Hazard Perry |
| OURS | 'We have met the enemy, and they are ___' |
| LAKEERIE | Where "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
| MET | "We have ___ the enemy, and they are ours": Perry |
| HEIS | "We have met the enemy and ___ us" |
| WEHAVE | "___ met the enemy and they are ours" |
| ERIE | Where Oliver Hazard Perry said "We have met the enemy, and they are ours" |
| BENJAMIN | Whose 1945 composition The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra shows off the various instruments and sections of the orchestra? (8,7) |
| BRITTEN | Whose 1945 composition The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra shows off the various instruments and sections of the orchestra? (8,7) |
| APSE | Apostle dismisses Lot and section of The Church (4) |
| RETORT | ... and is about to run, at the end, to retaliate (6) |
| REGISTRARS | Doctors, engineers and soldiers run into sailors |
| SHATTER | Crack and section mad person (7) |