| SEPARATE | Unattached soldier, tense during watch (8) |
| AGITATED | A soldier, tense, dined with daughter in distress (8) |
| TIMONEER | One is posted during watch, for instance, as helmsman (8) |
| DEMENTED | Distraught soldiers, tense, getting into action (8) |
| MEATLOAF | Tense during dinner with Charlie Marvin Lee Aday (4,4) |
| OSCARPETERSON | Jazzman, tense during openers, played with gong (5,8) |
| SNAPPY | Quick to doze off during watch, secretly (6) |
| SEEPAGE | Crack up during watch, making things damp (7) |
| MORTAL | Being tense during lesson (6) |
| TITLE | Tense during feature of Scrabble championship (5) |
| TETCHY | Irritable and tense during college year (6) |
| DUSTUP | American gets tense during party row (4-2) |
| CHORISTER | Singer is tense during difficult work, ending in despair |
| BESTWISHES | Be tense during windy noises -- good luck (4,6) |
| EXTRA | Another kiss? Tense during important date (5) |
| DETECTIVE | Member of police force becomes tense during bust |
| TITULAR | Tense during peculiar ritual in name only (7) |
| MARGARITA | Tense during good stage performance after damage from cocktail |
| GLUTEI | Muscles tense during Bond flick, at core (6) |
| ODDMENT | Irregular soldiers tense? A bit (7) |
