| COMPOSERS | Commanding Officer has a thousand Roman models of Bach, Handel and the like |
| CIRCUMVENTS | Artfully gains advantage by using most of the circus with a thousand Roman openings |
| COMMA | Come to the point, ma! The Commanding Officer has a thousand more! (5) |
| CLASSICIST | Lover of a style of art or architecture based on Greek or Roman models (10) |
| COMFORT | Commanding officer has a thousand at stronghold to solace (7) |
| SUMMING | Calculating 1000 (Roman) minus 1000 (American) perhaps (7) |
| CASINO | Commanding Officer has a sin in a gambling parlour (6) |
| COURSE | A Commanding Officer has a sure route to take |
| EYES | Intriguing story of a magician played by Edward G Robinson who has an uncanny power to predict the future, The Night Has A Thousand ... |
| AFAR | A thousand Romans leave a farm to go a long way off (4) |
| TREADMILL | Walk over a thousand Romans, sick of the dreary routine (9) |
| UTTER | Speak out or mutter on the loss of a thousand Romans (5) |
| BOBBY | and 55dn, American pop singer whose 60s hits included Rubber Ball, Take Good Care Of My Baby and The Night Has A Thousand Eyes |
| TEMPO | A poet has a thousand ways of showing speed and rhythm (5) |
| COLLAPSE | Officer has a loss of memory and will fall in a heap (8) |
| BYROM | Poet who, in his satire of 1725, applied the names "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to the two rival composers Handel and Bononcini (5) |
| BROCADE | The Commanding Officer has the bread and will exchange it for some patterned material (7) |
| TREBLED | Trembled when a thousand Romans left and tripled in size (7) |
| UNKEMPT | United Nations kept taking in a thousand Romans, dishevelled and scruffy (7) |
| MARRIAGE | A thousand Romans replace a hundred in carriage for holy wedlock (8) |
