| CATAPULT | Whip a penny-pinching superior officer in launch (8) |
| AMERICAN | Wealthy endlessly squeezed by a penny-pinching statesman |
| APPAL | A penny-pinching friend creates shock (5) |
| ASPIRE | Have ambitions as a penny-pinching father (6) |
| SLEEPING | Go over in launch in a dream perhaps (8) |
| CATARACT | Whip a redhead to exert force on a waterfall (8) |
| STALWART | Loyal supporter, American, left with wife in launch (8) |
| SYMPATHY | Pity setter's held up Irish man in launch (8) |
| ADJUTANT | An officer who acts as administrative assistant to a superior officer (8) |
| CATACOMB | Whip a company doctor into the grave (8) |
| STULTIFY | Make dull superior officer doubt being in dirty place (8) |
| ULTIMATE | Last superior officer meets one friend (8) |
| COPYEDIT | PC still to admit superior officer's correct to go to press? |
| FRAG | Kill a superior officer, in 'Nam |
| SIR | How to address a male superior officer in the army |
| THONG | A strap or a strip; a lash of a whip; a loop of a riding crop; or, a flimsy sandal, also called a flip-flop (5) |
| SULTAN | Muslim sovereign's superior officer in hospital (6) |
| THRESH | Word, from "beat seeds out of corn/grain", for a chastising flog with a whip, a fast race, a flail or writhe about, a lavish noisy party, a loud piece of rock music or a severe trounce (6) |
| LASH | One of the cilia around an eyelid; the end of a whip; a swipe with such a scourge; or, a stroke of satire (4) |
| CATAMOUNT | Whip a horse or a feline in America (9) |
