| SERGEANT | Strong fabric for a new model, or a senior officer (8) |
| SHIPMATE | He could be an ordinary seaman, or a senior officer (8) |
| RETOOL | Gear up for a new model |
| CLERK | Another word for a notary or an office administrator; or , a senior official in the House of Commons (5) |
| PREFECT | Name given to any of various officials placed in authority over others, including a magistrate in ancient Rome, head of a department in France or a senior school pupil (7) |
| TEMPLATE | A shape used as a guide in cutting; a model; or, a paper pattern or cut-out for dressmaking or for patchwork (8) |
| RESIDENT | Did a diplomat live there with a new model? (8) |
| COHERENT | Did a firm, at present, get a new model? It's quite consistent (8) |
| CASTANET | Throw a piece of fabric for a shell used in musical accompaniment (8) |
| FACELIFT | Hailed as a 'new' model by the manufacturer but really it's just a slight modification of the current design. (8) |
| ENFILADE | Broadside fired from Enfield (a new model) (8) |
| PRUNELLA | Strong fabric formerly used for barristers' gowns and the uppers of women's shoes (8) |
| TRADEDIN | Like some phones when a new model is released: 2 wds. |
| COMEDIAN | A senior officer, in short, took maiden out to see a funny man (8) |
| ADJUTANT | What military officer is an administrative assistant to a senior officer? (8) |
| PATTERN | An object such as a swatch or a dressmaker's paper template that serves as a model or a specimen; or, chintz, floral, hound's-tooth, Paisley, tartan, William Morris's Lodden or any other such decorati |
| BLACKROD | Truncated title of a senior officer responsible for summoning MPs to listen to the Queen's Speech in the Lords during the state opening of Parliament (5,3) |
| LIFE | Word, related to the German for "body", for one's course of existence; fauna and flora collectively; a painting of a real, rather than imaginary, model; or, a biography (4) |
| TABARET | Strong fabric for reserve forces, stripped, taking time (7) |
| HEMP | Makes strong fabric for bottom of skirt, first pinning it on the end |
