| RESPIRATOR | Varying reports about army and protective equipment |
| AIRBAG | In broadcast, talk about protective equipment (3,3) |
| LABCOAT | Protective equipment that may be black and hairy? (3,4) |
| CHINA | About army nurse Colleen McMurphy and comrades in the Vietnam War (----- Beach) |
| DIEPPE | Meet maker of personal protective equipment at Channel port (6) |
| CAYENNEPEPPER | Staff eating desire protective equipment, tucking into a chilli (7,6) |
| EARPLUG | US lawman to carry protective equipment (7) |
| YIPPEE | Year One's protective equipment here finally, hooray! (6) |
| SCUPPERED | Ruined by coronavirus, finally healed on getting protective equipment (9) |
| MAILBOX | Using protective equipment to fight to hold post (7) |
| TESTUDO | Concealed by whites, Tudor combined protective equipment (7) |
| PADS | Protective equipment worn on the legs in cricket (4) |
| UPPER | Top protective equipment? Query oddly missing stocks (5) |
| MASKS | Mass requests for protective equipment |
| RAPPEL | You leave Russian mountain range, carrying protective equipment to descend (6) |
| UMBRELLA | Redesigned rum label with protective equipment (8) |
| PUPPET | 11 was one place to cover Personal Protective Equipment (6) |
| AMBULATORY | Walking about, army on manoeuvres touring Leatherhead (10) |
| AIRHOSTESS | Publish letter written about army attendant (3,7) |
| ANTISOCIAL | Disruptive Italians worried about army officer |
