| COMMANDANT | Title for a senior officer, perhaps |
| MATRON | Former title for a senior nursing officer |
| COL | Pass for a senior officer? (3) |
| STATECABIN | Ship accommodation for a senior officer or wealthy passenger |
| GENERAL | Enlarge new role for a senior officer (7) |
| SUPER | It's largely 22 across for a senior officer, in short (5) |
| BOATSWAIN | A vessel for the suitor who's a petty officer, perhaps (9) |
| MANDARIN | Word for a senior bureaucrat, a leading Whitehall civil servant, a Chinese language or a citrus fruit (8) |
| FAG | Term for a boring, wearisome or unwelcome task; drudgery; or, traditionally in British public schools, a junior boy forced to do menial chores for a senior pupil or prefect (3) |
| THATS | Acknowledgement by a US officer, perhaps, of latest introduction to a good dining establishment, in |
| TASERED | Zapped by a police officer, perhaps |
| ROLEPLAY | Impersonate a police officer, perhaps |
| EASYCHAIR | A comfortable seat for a senior academic (4,5) |
| DECOY | Undercover police officer, perhaps |
| SOLDIER | Officer perhaps flogged strapping individual losing head |
| CONSUL | Foreign service officer, perhaps |
| CADET | Trainee police officer, perhaps (5) |
| GENDARME | Nice officer perhaps in garden nobbled me (8) |
| PETTY | Trifling with an officer, perhaps? (5) |
| ENSIGN | Stern officer, perhaps? |
