| COMMANDEER | Seize public land we're told, and forest creatures |
| RUDE | Rough measure of land, we're told (10) |
| STAIRWELL | Look hard, we're told, and skilfully for flight location (9) |
| REDCROSS | Flag examined, we're told, and put out |
| BRIGHT | Be correct, we're told, and intelligent (6) |
| RAPT | Did the packaging, we're told, and was engossed in it (4) |
| RAINED | Ruled, we're told, and poured (6) |
| MEDAL | Get involved, we're told, and can get an award (5) |
| GOTOSEA | Join a diocese, we're told, and leave, in the main (2,2,3) |
| ROCKED | What to do with a cradle, we're told, and a spacecraft (6) |
| ZANZIBAR | Singapore, Morocco and this African land were destinations for Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lam |
| RETRACT | Take back land, were we to vacate in advance (7) |
| DOES | Some female forest creatures |
| ELKS | Some hunted forest creatures |
| DEFLOWER | Lie with maid in spring, among forest creatures (8) |
| REED | Forest creatures returning to long grass (4) |
| ENTS | Tolkien's tree-like forest creatures (4) |
| PINEMARTENS | Forest creatures munched pie remnants (4,7) |
| FERMANAGH | One of the Irish counties whose confiscated lands were settled by English and Scots in the 'Plantation of Ulster' during the 17th century (9) |
| STAGS | Forest creatures |
