| PARACHUTES | They're bound to open up during others' downfall as high military figure shoots mouth off? (10) |
| PARATROOPER | High military figure? |
| BLAB | Shoot mouth off in second-class research establishment (4) |
| DEMISE | Downfall, as of an empire |
| SHOPFLOOR | Workers bound to open second deck (4,5) |
| PALMSPRINGS | Bound to open hands in US resort |
| SERFS | They're bound to be partial to Giotto's frescoes, looking up |
| COLLEGES | They're bound to provide an education to others playing, e.g., cellos (8) |
| AIDEDECAMP | A military figure who acts as an assistant to a senior officer (4,2,4) |
| OARS | Beastly types lose the head and they're bound to cause people to row (4) |
| STUDENTS | They're bound to learn lessons as head of services expresses disapproval over library (8) |
| ARMS | They're bound to end up in somebody's hands (4) |
| BOOKSHOP | They're bound to sell on a short trip to a novel place? (8) |
| MANANDWIFE | They're bound to belong to the same union (3,3,4) |
| ACTIONMAN | Military figure crew ought to follow film director's instruction (6,3) |
| RECUSANT | Mouth off about European money, as before refusing to toe the line |
| TOPBRASS | Informal term, thought to derive from gold oak leaves decorating senior officers' caps, for those in authority or of high military rank (3,5) |
| SPOKESPEOPLE | They're bound to have something to say (12) |
| BRASS | A copper and zinc mixture for people of high military rank |
| TITLEPAGES | Duke, say, with young attendants - they're bound to be at the front (5,5) |
