| GARRISON | Troops stationed in a fortress or town to defend it (8) |
| SIEGE | Old word for a seat or throne; or, a blockade of a fortress or town (5) |
| CASTLE | A fortress or residence of a prince or aristocrat (6) |
| SPIONKOP | Battle site a shade outside capital in Oman, inducement required to defend it (5,3) |
| NEEDIEST | Journalist that is stationed in retreat is most disadvantaged (8) |
| DISSERTATION | To a degree you have to defend it (12) |
| ESPRESSO | Stationed in east so push for strong drink |
| PALOALTO | Australian soldier stationed in quiet, mostly distant West Coast city |
| STRONGHOLD | A word for a bastion, citadel, fortress or other defensive structure; or, by extension, a place or centre of predominance (10) |
| POORLYARGUED | Made a bad case for most of the drugs found at Paris airport and tried to defend it? (6,6) |
| EMBASSY | Building which is the official address of diplomats stationed in a foreign country (7) |
| CONSTABLE | From Latin for "maste r of the horses", title of the governor or warden of a royal castle of fortress; or, in its modern sense, a police officer (9) |
| PORTCULLIS | What strong heavy grating slides down to block a gateway in a fortress? (10) |
| BASED | Stationed (in a place) |
| SENTRY | One of the Queen's guards stationed in a box-like shelter at the entrance of Buckingham Palace (6) |
| CANNES | Film-festival city near to the Lerins Islands and Ile Sainte-Marguerite, where the so-called man in the iron mask spent 11 years isolated in a fortress prison (6) |
| CASTILE | I am imprisoned in a fortress in spain (7) |
| ALCAIDE | Governor of a Spanish fortress or jail (7) |
| CITADEL | Fortress or stronghold near a city (7) |
| ALCAZAR | A Spanish fortress or palace (7) |
