| GENERALSTORE | Officer set or prepared for village shop |
| COMBATANT | A person or group engaged in or prepared for a fight (9) |
| EMBALMED | Preserved or prepared for burial, as a body (8) |
| CROP | Pouch in the oesophagus of a bird where food is stored or prepared for digestion (4) |
| CRAW | Pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion (4) |
| ROASTERS | Pigs, potatoes or poults suitable for oven-cooking; the pans in which they are parched or prepared; people or places who/which cook coffee beans; or, hot scorching days (8) |
| THORP | An Old English word for village, hamlet or farmstead (5) |
| STORES | Computer memories; village shops; or, a ship or army's supplies of provisions, equipment, arms etc (6) |
| GOOSESTEP | March past village shop at last, holding up tailors' irons |
| STEWARD | Officer set off to part of hospital |
| BLOC | Second highest officer set up alliance |
| GROUPCAPTAIN | Officer set about tiresome task, consuming time |
| CHORTLED | Officer set back in routine task, daughter giggled (8) |
| ASSAULT | Tax haven short of capital - officer set upon (7) |
| POLITE | Courteous petty officer set fire to evil leader |
| SCAMPI | Langoustine or Dublin Bay prawn tails when cooked or prepared in breadcrumbs or other ingredients (6 |
| OFFBROADWAYHITS | Candidates for Village Voice bestowals |
| HANK | Dog River's candidate for village idiot |
| PASTON | No taps turn for village? (6) |
| WALESBY | Revised bye- laws for village in Lincolnshire (7) |
