| Clues | Answers |
| Academy founder, name inspiring old military unit | PLATOON |
| Alan Bennett, perhaps rare Sky broadcast with him on? | YORKSHIREMAN |
| Amazed to emerge from crash with small lorry | THUNDERSTRUCK |
| Briefly spot partner making bit of a bloomer | SEPAL |
| Celebrated name in Ireland, actor not parting company with the best around | PATRICK |
| Explosive content of letter and a PS that’s outrageous | SALTPETRE |
| Field certain rugby players to defend unusual upset | PADDOCK |
| Foreign flower drooping over container almost | LIMPOPO |
| Frank in Stoke-upon-Trent worked overlooking river | OUTSPOKEN |
| Greatly admire lounge windows, circular ones, we’re told | IDOLISE |
| Have a career, then become a ghost writer | RUSHDIE |
| Invalidate in full badly written treaty ultimately | NULLIFY |
| Menial salary at the start tavern resolved | SERVANT |
| My son, tense inside, faced by male bullies | HECTORS |
| One cutting confidential links leading to famous people | PERSONALITIES |
| Prevaricate, extremely fearful at first over succeeding queen? | PUSSYFOOT |
| Return fight ends in historic triumph after comparatively uninspiring rounds | REMATCH |
| Revolutionary piece of journalism’s a crass expression of contempt | SARCASM |
| Rigorous hospital on top of outbreak, promoting antitoxin initially | HARSH |
| Senator’s back, stopping terribly austere Republican official managing funds | TREASURER |
| Solicitor essentially needs more bright staff | CROSIER |
| Standards of behaviour indoors, most unwelcome occasionally | NORMS |
| Surrounded by lake, unknown house perched high up | EYRIE |
| Toy with giving Hitchcock film a miss | SKIPPINGROPE |
| Trains in Switzerland with facilities back aboard depleted services | SCHOOLS |
| Two tree species, it’s said, in Virginian city | ROANOKE |
| University student rushes around outside being profane | SECULAR |
| Variety of tea grew fashionable | ROSEHIP |
