| ATTACK | To begin hostilities, is to do what (6) |
| GOTOWAR | To begin hostilities (2, 2, 3) |
| BATHOS | Admission of combat hostilities is anticlimax (6) |
| INVADE | Begin hostilities |
| OPENFIRE | Begin hostilities after sack is given to writer on love (4,4) |
| UNTOWARD | And, in Berlin, keeping to hostilities is inconvenient (8) |
| WAR | Go to ___ (begin hostilities) |
| STARWARS | Leading hostilities is IDS? Quite the reverse! (4,4) |
| FLASHPOINT | Where an outbreak of hostilities is likely (10) |
| TAKETHEFIELD | Begin hostilities (4,3,5) |
| NEATEN | To tidy something up, is to do what to it (6) |
| REVEAL | To lay open to view, is to do what (6) |
| REPAIR | To mend something, is to do what to it (6) |
| PUNISH | To subject to a penalty, is to do what (6) |
| UNSEAL | To open something that is firmly closed, is to do what (6) |
| ASSIGN | To appoint to a post or duty, is to do what (6) |
| BETRAY | To expose to an enemy by treachery, is to do what (6) |
| EXPORT | To send goods to other countries is to do what (6) |
| RECITE | To repeat a piece of poetry or prose to an audience, is to do what (6) |
| EMBALM | To treat a corpse with chemicals in order to preserve it from decay, is to do what (6) |
