| FORCE | Potency of a body of police |
| ACIDIC | Put a body of police in charge - sharp! (6) |
| STRENGTH | Physical brawn; mental resilience; potency of a drink or a medicine; or, a person's metier (8) |
| BIOASSAY | Measuring potency (of a substance) by its effect on cells |
| HEADINESS | Potency of prominent Nazi holding a feast |
| VIGOUR | Potency of port half an hour later (6) |
| CORPORAL | Word for "head", hence a soldier in charge of a body of troops; or, a leader of a gang of miners (8) |
| CORPS | Organised body of police catch rebel leader (5) |
| ENFORCED | Insisted on body of police being in finale (8) |
| INTERPOL | Put under and cut up body of police (8) |
| THINBLUELINE | Body of police that represents the Piccadilly Tube network? |
| BACKING | Support at the rear or by way of a body of helpers, facing, funding, lining, mounting, musical accompaniment or stiffening; or, a counter-clockwise change of wind (7) |
| EM | The square of a body of any size of type. |
| UHLAN | A member of a body of lancers first employed in the Polish army and later in other European armies |
| STAMPEDE | A sudden rush and flight of a body of panic-stricken cattle (8) |
| STAGNANT | Of a body of water, having no current or flow and often emitting a foul smell (8) |
| AGROUND | On to or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water (7) |
| ARALSEA | Artist back to organise a sale of a body of water (4,3) |
| OUTLET | A river that runs out of a body of water (6) |
| LAGOONAL | Of a body of water |