| Clues | Answers |
| Body of soldiers, tense, without means to ascend | TROOP |
| Ceasefire, short, set up on base | TRUCE |
| Comic circulating an unfounded rumour | CANARD |
| Cooking method, first of three broadcast on radio | TANDOORI |
| Course record therefore momentous, originally | EPSOM |
| Day of celebration, perhaps, in flats I’ve renovated | FESTIVAL |
| Dog’s breakfast in canteen | MESS |
| Drink Italian provided after a rep returned | APERITIF |
| Face endless people giving a torrent of abuse | DIATRIBE |
| Failing to change sides | DEFECT |
| Form of government that may make one go charily | OLIGARCHY |
| Heavy food awkward to digest without it | STODGE |
| Impressed by energy charge | STAMPEDE |
| Inherited a northern castle? Oddly, that’s about right | ANCESTRAL |
| Lose it, knowing of article supporting female name | FLYOFFTHEHANDLE |
| Loud type of jazz music — name trio’s leader | STRIDENT |
| Measure some chinchillas | INCH |
| One may be used to exercise in Delhi gym, maybe | INDIANCLUB |
| Papers produced by the French unemployed | IDLE |
| Poet in dreary study | DRYDEN |
| Put off by fellow cleaner | DETERGENT |
| Rates unusual zircon, initially, as imitation | ERSATZ |
| Record temperature, then take off | TAPE |
| Reparation from that one mentioned | ATONEMENT |
| Sorry tale about legal document excluding women | CONTRITE |
| Sort of menu left next to a trolley in A&E | ALACARTE |
| Speak, interrupting very different type of prophet | SOOTHSAYER |
| Turn of phrase I love about Diane and Mike | IDIOM |
| US prosecutor needs to disguise material | DAMASK |
