| DEDICATED | The cadet died and how devoted he was! (9) |
| RAPTLY | How devoted people regard king, appropriately |
| ABDICATES | He formally gives up when the sailor and I join the cadets |
| TADCASTER | Jack captured the cadets assembled in Yorkshire (9) |
| TWITTERED | Bird, obstructed by wide tree, sadly died and made this sound? (9) |
| SMOTHERED | Cat's come back to this place, died and got covered over (9) |
| GREATDANE | Hans Andersen was! His large dog also? (5,4) |
| TENNYSON | Charged to account for the charge of The Light Brigade, wasn't he? Good Lord, so he was! (10) |
| KING | At draughts, he's twice the man he was! (4) |
| DICKENS | A writer? The heck he was! |
| INQUISITOR | Tortured by Torquemada, I squint or I reveal who the devil he was! (10) |
| DUKE | Marion Morrison, his certified name, also known as? The hell he was! (4) |
| ALCAPONE | "They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money," complained this Chicago gangster - how wrong he was! (2,6) |
| ADAM | What a mad chap he was! (4) |
| TYLER | Wat a revolting fellow he was! (5) |
| SPIELS | ___ the one the cadet in the ship speaks extravagantly about (6) |
| CHEATED | The cadet wrongly held he had been tricked |
| TRAINEE | Have the cadet fall in and stand outside (7) |
| ABDICATE | A sailor and I get the cadet to formally give up (8) |
| CLOUDCUCKOOLAND | The noisy bird in the tribe died and went to ... heaven? (5-6-4) |
