| SEAPOWERS | They predicted about a captured soldier creating nations with powerful navies (3,6) |
| UNARMS | Attends to as one might a captured soldier |
| AIDA | Verdi opera about a captured princess |
| METOFFICE | Had match cancelled: slippery conditions - as they predicted? |
| AILMENT | Starts to act immediately with lieutenant protecting soldiers creating disorder (7) |
| SOOTHSAYERS | They predicted such hot, agitated speakers. (11) |
| ODOUR | Dishevelled duo among soldiers creating smell (5) |
| SHOTALINE | Having a captured a lot in flight, she bragged (4,1,4) |
| UNASHAMED | Brazen editor goes after United Nations with a hoax (9) |
| FIREPOWER | Military might sack captured soldier (engineer, rtd) (9) |
| SHIPOWNER | Fleet proprietor captured soldier sporting black eye (9) |
| TURBULENT | Like a roller-coaster with powerful engine briefly utilised heading for a fast time (9) |
| DOBERMANN | A large German dog breed with powerful jaws and a smooth, typically black coat (9) |
| VENETIANS | Members of seagoing republic represented in ten navies |
| STOMACHES | Navies |
| GINPALACE | Snare mate with powerful shot in drinking den |
| CONGEREEL | Long-bodied saltwater fish with powerful jaws (6,3) |
| ALLIGATOR | Large crocodilian of the southern US, with powerful jaws and sharp teeth (9) |
| CROCODILE | Predator with powerful jaws |
| SACK | The plunder/pillage of a captured city or town; a large bag of burlap, gunny or hessian for flour, grain, potatoes or racing in; a woman's loose-fitting gown; or, a train of silk hanging from the shou |